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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

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?

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?
Starmer and Phillipson at a school
Dr Sara Reis

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?

Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'
Police holding crowds back from the Home Office vehicle.
Immigration

Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Liz Kendall blasted for 'fuelling fear' after saying benefits claimants are 'taking the mickey'
DWP minister Liz Kendall
Benefits

Liz Kendall blasted for 'fuelling fear' after saying benefits claimants are 'taking the mickey'

'It's devastating': UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests
Workplace inclusion

'It's devastating': UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests

Big UK businesses are slashing thousands of jobs. Just how much trouble are we in?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the autumn budget 2024
Jobs

Big UK businesses are slashing thousands of jobs. Just how much trouble are we in?

Inside the plan to give free cash to homeless people in Manchester: 'It's time to try something new'
Andy Burnham and Rachel Reeves at Manchester Victoria Station
Universal basic income

Inside the plan to give free cash to homeless people in Manchester: 'It's time to try something new'

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