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DWP adviser calls for tougher benefits regime for lone parents
"….Lone parents with youngest children aged one to seven should be expected to improve their employment prospects as a condition of benefits, a government adviser said today…."
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Paul Gregg interviewed on BBC Radio 4
Paul Gregg is interviewed on Tuesday 2nd December for the World at One programme. He talks about his recent work on Welfare Reforms.
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White pupils most likely to leave school at 16
"….White children are far keener to leave school at the earliest opportunity than those from any other ethnic group, according to the Centre for Market and Public Organisation…"
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Something for something
"….Mr Purnell’s white paper—the product of policy reviews by David Freud, a former banker, and Paul Gregg, an academic—is more radical than many that have gone before it…"
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Welfare reforms linked to baby boom
"…A new report has suggested there are links between increased state benefits for children and a baby boom among poorly-educated women, it has been reported…."
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Claimants 'should be work ready'
"….Almost everyone on benefits should be preparing themselves for work, says a report commissioned by the government….."
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Benefits slackers will lose up to a month's payments
"…James Purnell, the Welfare Secretary, will announce a series of escalating punishments for the "hardcore" of benefits claimants who fail to live up to their responsibilities by missing appointments or interviews…."
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