Into work support from the work programme and job centre is not delivering for single parents, or for the tax payer.

Double-dip or not, stagnation is here for sure.

The Chancellor's determination to persist with his strategy has more to do with politics than economics.

Don't hate the small charity players, hate the large corporate game.

A minor victory for campaigners against mandatory work

If our forecasts carry on being made on faulty assumptions the government will never learn.

It could be an outbreak of entrepreneurism, tax avoidance, or maybe just plain old unemployment

Parliamentarians' wages aren't set by the free market, so it's no use appealing to it for a raise.

Making out that cutting working-age welfare won’t hurt those in work is so divorced from reality that there was always going to be backlash. None of which is to say that Osborne’s gamble won’t pay off.

Not a paragon of efficiency.

Just 3.5 per cent of the 878,000 jobseekers referred to the programme have found work for six months or more.

Officials defend the “time-bomb at the heart of Europe”.

Unemployment is at its lowest number for over a year. We answer five questions on the falling unemployment rates.

Youth unemployment down by 0.8 per cent.