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Opinion: Rishi Sunak Isn’t Interested in Helping Young People – Free Labour Is Good for Business

by Ellen Clifford

The chancellor's plan to invest billions in 'creating jobs for young people' sounds sensible amid the sharpest ever rise in unemployment. But anti-welfare reform campaigners recognise his proposals for what they are, writes Ellen Clifford: an expansion of workfare, designed to benefit businesses at the expense of workers.

4 Ways Generation Y is Being Taken for a Ride (and 3 Ways it’s Pushing Back)

by AltGen

Youth unemployment is sky-rocketing and Cameron is seeking to take away benefits from young people. Against this trend of declining living standards, students in the US are organising debt strikes and in the UK youth-led workers' co-operatives are multiplying.

7 Ways the Localism Act is Shafting the Homeless and Precariously-Housed

by Izzy Koksal

Heard of the Localism Act 2011? Nor have most people, but this seemingly-subtle piece of legislation is having devastating effects on homeless and precariously-housed people as well as social housing more broadly. These effects are only set to be exacerbated, requiring action before we're fire-fighting nationwide social cleansing.

Weaponising Workfare

by Aaron Peters

In an article originally posted at 'Our Kingdom' at Open Democracy in March 2013 Bastani looks at the relationship between the secular crisis, surplus populations, automation and workfare policies.