Workless

If employers are queuing up to recruit, it will be easier to get the long-term workless into jobs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Cities need to stop the young and temporarily unemployed of today becoming the long-term workless of tomorrow." ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the Prime Minister convenes his "jobs summit" today, there will be a change of tone from the accustomed fret about the long-term workless and the unwilling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A total of 1.84 million children lived in these so-called workless households. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The announcement comes in the same week that the Office for National Statistics released the latest figures on workless households, which show that there are almost 4 million across the UK.Letwin told the environment audit committee that there had been crisis talks about the state of growth and unemployment in the country. ❋ Unknown (2011)

BIRMINGHAM, England — U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced fresh action Monday to cut the country's welfare bill, unveiling plans to cap the benefits any workless household can receive while removing child benefits for those with higher incomes. ❋ Ainsley Thomson (2010)

The context was two-fold: first, decades of failed social, educational, family and microeconomic policies, which means that a large chunk of the UK has become alienated from mainstream society, culturally impoverished, bereft of role models, permanently workless and trapped and dependent on welfare or the shadow economy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There are 3.8 million 'workless households' in Great Britain, and 1.8 million children live in them. ❋ RJ (2011)

The cap was designed by the government as a way of saving cash, incentivising work and introducing what it believes is an element of fairness into the benefits system - it argues the cap will mean no workless family will receive more in benefits than average working household earnings - an estimated £26,000. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Far too often in the past,all the former have been prisoners of economic and political dogma and wanted any conflict,which has had dire consequences for the UK since industrial relations broke down in the 70's,the woefully unbalanced neo-liberal free market thesis took over from the 80's onwards at the vast expense of manufacturing and the millions of workless underclass it has produced since. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's not about saving cash, he says, but about incentivising workless families to get a job. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The context was two-fold: first, decades of failed social, educational, family and microeconomic policies, which means that a large chunk of the U.K. has become alienated from mainstream society, culturally impoverished, bereft of role models, permanently workless and trapped and dependent on welfare or the shadow economy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He wants re-assurance from Lord Freud that vulnerable families will be supported and not simply cast out on the street, or forced into overcrowded homes.4.52pm: Lord Freud, responding to the amendment on behalf of the government, says the cap is about "changing behaviours" among workless families. ❋ Unknown (2012)

It's a powerful, passionate intervention.6.12pm: Labour peer Baroness Lister attacks the misinformation put out by ministers over the benefit cap, particularly the way they "slide" between median income of workless familes and median earnings of working families as if they were the same thing. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Heather Stewart discusses Iain Duncan Smith's plan to get the workless back to work yet ignores the elephant in the room "The Work Programme is a promising idea with one tiny flaw – there isn't any work", Business. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ever since Bob’s pay [raise] was [denied] he has been [workless]. ❋ Burgesscdb (2018)