Employment

Blindboy: 'If I were prime minister I'd stop billionaires buying political power'
PM For The PM

Blindboy: 'If I were prime minister I'd stop billionaires buying political power'

The podcaster and author has some big ideas about running the nation if he were prime minister for an afternoon
The football food van serving up jobs for out-of-work young people
Stuffed Gourmet Trailers food van outside St Mary's Stadium in Southampton
Food

The football food van serving up jobs for out-of-work young people

Fat Macy's: The training academy lifting young people out of homelessness and into hospitality jobs
A young person being trained in the kitchen at Fat Macy's
Employment

Fat Macy's: The training academy lifting young people out of homelessness and into hospitality jobs

Everyone is being asked to prepare for troubled times. What does it mean for people in poverty?
Steven MacKenzie

Everyone is being asked to prepare for troubled times. What does it mean for people in poverty?

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'
PM For The PM

The Apprentice's Tim Campbell: 'I'd make degrees free. We should treat education as infrastructure'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Dealing with the cost of living is essential to help young people out of Britain’s NEETs crisis
young people looking out on the sunset
Kamran Malekzai

Dealing with the cost of living is essential to help young people out of Britain’s NEETs crisis

I'm a KFC youth worker. Young people aren't a lost cause – we're failing them at the first hurdle
Young people at the KFC Youth Foundation Middlesborough Youth Hub.
Ellie Smith

I'm a KFC youth worker. Young people aren't a lost cause – we're failing them at the first hurdle

How your first job can determine what you earn for the rest of your career
a woman shaking hands with a man at a desk
Employment

How your first job can determine what you earn for the rest of your career

Over a million workers 'trapped in poverty' as they lose nearly £500 a month in cancelled shifts
A barista at work. Insecure work can be expensive for employees
insecure work

Over a million workers 'trapped in poverty' as they lose nearly £500 a month in cancelled shifts

NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: 'This is not a turning point'
people walking
NEETs

NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: 'This is not a turning point'

'Disabled people are having to work 10 times harder to live their life and pursue their dreams'
Bella Roberts
Employment

'Disabled people are having to work 10 times harder to live their life and pursue their dreams'

Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg: 'Young people are always the first to bear the brunt of cuts'
Amelia Dimoldenberg
Employment

Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg: 'Young people are always the first to bear the brunt of cuts'

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers
Holiday Culb magazine
Creative jobs

Inside Holiday Club: the summer school helping NEET young people start creative careers

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'
Maya Jama
Employment

Maya Jama: 'Breaking into the creative industries shouldn’t come down to who you know'

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?
Shuab Gamote
NEETs

NEETs crisis: How did one million young people fall off the career ladder?

Should parents on benefits get £4,500 if their child starts an apprenticeship?
Prime minister Andy Burnham meets with apprentices and graduates at Alstom Transport
benefits

Should parents on benefits get £4,500 if their child starts an apprenticeship?

Inside the innovative employment pilot bringing jobs to overlooked young people's doorsteps
JobsPlus staff and community champions from across the country at a recent Learning in Action event
Employment

Inside the innovative employment pilot bringing jobs to overlooked young people's doorsteps

'At your sick child's bedside, the last thing you need is to not feel supported financially'
Michael Duffy, who is now a healthy five-year-old but had an aggressive form of childhood cancer.
Employment rights

'At your sick child's bedside, the last thing you need is to not feel supported financially'

How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'
Young people walking in the street
Youth unemployment

How Britain failed one million NEET young people: 'We're wasting a generation’s talent'

'Give people a chance': Monica Galetti on the restaurant helping people out of homelessness
Monica Galetti is the new executive chef of 130 Primrose.
Food

'Give people a chance': Monica Galetti on the restaurant helping people out of homelessness

Masterchef star Monica Galetti joins restaurant staffed by homeless people
Monica Galetti
Food

Masterchef star Monica Galetti joins restaurant staffed by homeless people

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Youth unemployment has a 'long-term scarring effect' affecting finances and health decades later
Teenager on a laptop
Employment

Youth unemployment has a 'long-term scarring effect' affecting finances and health decades later

Meet the man tasked with fixing youth unemployment: 'I see a generation that is trying hard'
Big Issue Recruit's Catherine Parsons interviewing Alan Milburn.
Catherine Parsons

Meet the man tasked with fixing youth unemployment: 'I see a generation that is trying hard'

Switching to a four-day week ‘could save councils £1bn a year’
a man and a woman working at computers
Employment

Switching to a four-day week ‘could save councils £1bn a year’

Youth job grants: Will paying companies £3,000 to hire jobless youngsters fix youth unemployment?
a young person sat on a bench
Youth unemployment

Youth job grants: Will paying companies £3,000 to hire jobless youngsters fix youth unemployment?