learning and employment

Number of young people not in work or education highest for a decade – but it's not their fault
The green job centre plus sign hangs above a wet and dirty concrete architrave
NEET

Number of young people not in work or education highest for a decade – but it's not their fault

Foreign workers at 'increasing risk of exploitation' as UK sees sharp fall in work visas
Prime minister Keir Starmer dressed in hi-vis jacket and hard hat
Migration

Foreign workers at 'increasing risk of exploitation' as UK sees sharp fall in work visas

Scrap two-child benefit cap to prove you're serious about child poverty, Labour told
Child poverty

Scrap two-child benefit cap to prove you're serious about child poverty, Labour told

Jane Austen has become my shelter against a confusing world
John Bird

Jane Austen has become my shelter against a confusing world

Letters: Starmer and co aren't changemakers – they're change-talkers 
Letters

Letters: Starmer and co aren't changemakers – they're change-talkers 

Inside the Big Issue: 40 years on from the miners' strike
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: 40 years on from the miners' strike

LGBTQ+ kids worry their straight parents won't accept them. Here's one way to fix that
LGBTQ+ rights

LGBTQ+ kids worry their straight parents won't accept them. Here's one way to fix that

How ChatGPT and AI changed the conversation on universal basic income
ChatGPT
Alison Hawdale

How ChatGPT and AI changed the conversation on universal basic income

MS has left me virtually housebound – I fear what disability benefit reforms mean for my future
Charlotte Wright who is living with multiple sclerosis
Charlotte Wright

MS has left me virtually housebound – I fear what disability benefit reforms mean for my future

Government urged to stop using 'personality tests' in its hiring process: 'Big barrier for autistic people'
a woman in business attire sits with a
Employment

Government urged to stop using 'personality tests' in its hiring process: 'Big barrier for autistic people'

How Clement Attlee's best intentions led to the problems we face today
John Bird

How Clement Attlee's best intentions led to the problems we face today

Bring in a four-day work week to beat Reform in next election, Labour told: 'There's no catch here'
Four-day working week

Bring in a four-day work week to beat Reform in next election, Labour told: 'There's no catch here'

The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration
builders
Housebuilding

The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits
dwp
Benefits

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits

First Dates star Fred Sirieix: 'I left France because I loved punk'
Letter To My Younger Self

First Dates star Fred Sirieix: 'I left France because I loved punk'

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled
Employment

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How the Alsama Project grew from a small Lebanese flat to educate hundreds of teen refugees
Refugees

How the Alsama Project grew from a small Lebanese flat to educate hundreds of teen refugees

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?
Work

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?

Why are self-employed dads like me being forced to make an impossible choice?
man and baby's hand
Marvyn Harrison

Why are self-employed dads like me being forced to make an impossible choice?

How do we stop AI becoming an 'engine of inequality', and make it a force for good?
Artificial intelligence

How do we stop AI becoming an 'engine of inequality', and make it a force for good?