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A new UK policy will kick people off benefits if they don’t try to work

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The Financial Services & Markets Bill: Key Terms and Definitions

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How will the Financial Services & Markets Bill impact financial inclusion?

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How will the Financial Services & Markets Bill impact the environment?

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How will the Financial Services & Markets Bill impact financial regulation?

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Published 2 years ago

Government rules for the UK financial sector are being changed

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Published 2 years ago

Only three percent of UK nursery workers are male

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Published 2 years ago

How should societies respond to the destruction of monuments?

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Published 3 years ago

Improving health literacy may help solve America’s pandemic problems

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Published 4 years ago

Rich countries are buying up all the coronavirus vaccines

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Published 4 years ago

Covid-19 is more divisive than Brexit

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Published 4 years ago

Scientists promise to find out why Covid-19 kills more BAME people

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Published 4 years ago

“I thank God for all those people who are around and helping me”

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Published 5 years ago

I want to work. But without my legal refugee status I’m not allowed.

by J - May Project Gardens in Issues
Published 5 years ago

The coronavirus is wrecking China’s economy

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Many health officials think current back pain treatments are a waste of money

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Published 5 years ago

Minimum wages may reduce suicide rates

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Published 5 years ago

Should we bother trying to stop shark attacks?

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Published 5 years ago

Ecuadorians riot until they get their fuel subsidies back

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Published 5 years ago

Commuters attacked Extinction Rebellion protesters who were stopping them going to work

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Published 5 years ago

There’s a growing call to ban or restrict vaping

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Published 5 years ago

Is the NHS really running out of money?

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Published 5 years ago

Who decides which treatments you can get on the NHS?

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Published 5 years ago

More diversity could help cure Alzheimer’s

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Published 6 years ago

Reality TV shows are being criticised for damaging their contestants’ mental health

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Alabama bans abortion

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Published 6 years ago

New antibiotics aren’t being made. That could cause 10 million deaths by 2050.

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Published 6 years ago

Charitable donations to rebuild Notre Dame are being criticised for prioritising buildings over people

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

UK gov won’t give benefits to people who “deliberately” use up their savings

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Published 6 years ago

Would you become a drug dealer if the UK legalised all drugs?

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Published 6 years ago

Is Brunei passing homophobic law to boost investment?

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Published 6 years ago

Could more grammar schools mean more BME students going to top unis?

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Published 6 years ago

Drug dealers are marketing their products as “vegan” and “ethically sourced”.

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Published 6 years ago

Drug-dealing teens escape jail thanks to their grasp of grammar

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Published 6 years ago

China says it’ll use force if needed to take back Taiwan

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Published 6 years ago

The BBC might make elderly Brits pay to watch TV

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

More playtime could reduce poverty and inequality

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Published 6 years ago

The French are rioting over rising fuel tax

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Published 6 years ago

Some (white) instagrammers are appaz pretending to be black to get more followers

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Published 6 years ago

Japanese companies told to pay compensation to former forced workers

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Published 6 years ago

A hunting group invited some MPs to shoot the breeze (and some birds) and people are mad

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Published 6 years ago

UK police say they can’t cope with all their 999 calls

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Published 6 years ago

Amazon is accused of using surge-pricing to take advantage of the Californian wildfires

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Published 6 years ago

Feminism might literally save women’s lives

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

How should economists think about sex work?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

1 in 200 Brits are homeless

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Brits think benefit claimants should take any job they can. Should that include sex work?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

People have some opinions on the fees migrants pay to send money to their families

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Published 6 years ago

AirBnB has got entangled in the conflict between Israel and Palestine

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Published 6 years ago

Should schools ban designer coats?

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Published 6 years ago

Technology is taking over our workplaces. Should we be scared?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

New software stops journalists ignoring women

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Men have longer commutes than women. #EverydaySexism?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Is the minimum wage a good thing?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Should police prosecute men who laughed at Grenfell fire?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

WTF was Fiscal Phil actually on about?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Phil’s Budget Speech: Hot or Not?

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Published 6 years ago

Should fireworks boxes show violent injuries and warnings?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Women have declared war on make-up

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Should the government ban adverts for harmful products?

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Published 6 years ago

UK police risk becoming “irrelevant”. Uh oh.

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Published 6 years ago

Yeah, you can’t sell things that cause cancer, judge tells firm

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Published 6 years ago

The UK’s legal aid organisation is going to court… to defend itself

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Brits are getting fatter. Are takeaway joints to blame?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Open borders vs. closed borders

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Royal Mail staff say their bosses are cheating them out of money

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Published 6 years ago

Thousands of Glaswegian women are striking over gender discrimination in council wages

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Published 6 years ago

Equal opportunity statements don’t make companies more diverse

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

England’s just got its first mental health government minister

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

It’ll take more than a Nobel Prize to stop climate change, say activists

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Published 6 years ago

‘Wait, only showing job adverts to men is sexism?’ asks Facebook.

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Published 6 years ago

Cigarette boss says regulating e-cigarettes would be like banning condoms

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Published 6 years ago

Asylum seeker aren’t welcome in the north of England, apparently

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Published 6 years ago

Women are better investors than men

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

We should all stop what we’re doing and focus on fixing poverty in Africa

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Want to save the world? Play the stockmarket.

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

America wonders if letting people sell deadly painkillers was the best idea

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

After two deadly accidents, Italy wants to renationalise its roads

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

RyanAir considers solving pilot strike by firing pilots

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Published 6 years ago

Kids lose out from long summer holidays, new research shows

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Published 6 years ago

France is introducing on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment

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Published 6 years ago

Ethical consumer & cocaine user? Doesn’t add up, Met police chief says

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Published 6 years ago

Two bathtubs of water per household per day are wasted through leakage

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

The EU proposes member states receive €6,000 for each migrant taken in

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Build It In Britain’ plan

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Public sector wage cap may finally be scrapped today

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

The EU is voting on new copyright laws

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Panama Papers firm doesn’t actually know who most of its customers were

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Published 7 years ago

Local councils shouldn’t need to sell off all our public buildings, charity says

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Universal credit sucks, apparently

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Supreme Court rules against Pimlico Plumbers

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Published 7 years ago

Students with more work have better mental health

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Not one of the top 100 earners in sport is a woman

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The Labour Party wants to ban fur

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Published 7 years ago

MPs want to make buying sex illegal

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Published 7 years ago

Local councils are fining and imprisoning homeless people

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Our high streets are disappearing before our eyes. Here’s how we can save them

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The government is putting £40m towards brain cancer research

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

California is probably going to require solar panels on every home

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Donald Trump just backed out of the Iran nuclear deal

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Published 7 years ago

There are 55 million different train fares in the UK

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Hundreds of shops have closed this year

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Vulnerable people can’t access free care because of where they live

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Bad landlord? Take away their property

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Is the blue passports debacle finally over?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The UK finally got a ‘real’ pay rise

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Charity shops, betting shops, phone shops. What’s left of the Great British high street?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The battle to save the Windrush generation

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The housing crisis is turning into a homelessness crisis

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

That 5p charge on plastic bags may have actually worked

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Five things we learned from the gender pay gap figures

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

According to a new survey, robots are set to take 66 million jobs

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Wealth can have an impact on your success in school, according to a new report

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

US teenagers are taking on a powerful lobbying group

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Police take ‘days’ to respond to 999 calls

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Prices aren’t rising as fast as they were, and it might mean we all feel a little bit richer

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Five main points from the government’s big Brexit deal

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

More than 600,000 people contacted one debt charity last year

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Why we need feminist economists

by Naila Kabeer in Issues
Published 7 years ago

It’s International Women’s Day. This is why that matters

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The Bank of England is setting up ‘citizen’s councils’ across the UK

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The UK’s the world’s biggest producer of legal cannabis

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

London is the most unequal place in the UK

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Harvey Weinstein’s company is filing for bankruptcy

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Woop! It’s official, millennials are the fattest generation

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Four solutions to gun control that just might work

by Anna Case in Issues
Published 7 years ago

“For me, the whole process has been unclear”

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What to expect in 2018

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Young people have a lot to say about Brexit

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What will Brexit do to interest rates?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What will Brexit do to the environment?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What you need to know about Brexit

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What actually is a tax haven? We asked the ‘experts’

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

FYI: You’re supposed to be happy about this Stamp Duty thing

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Are we right to be so angry about the Paradise Papers?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Here’s how many primary school teachers we could pay if people stopped avoiding tax

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What actually are the Paradise Papers?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Why are we so bad at taking care of the oceans?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

I joined the #wastefree movement for a week to find out how much going plastic free actually costs

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Is it ever okay to own a gun?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Could we fix America’s gun problem by just charging more for guns?

by Anna Case in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Guns, gangs, & exploitation: how young people pay the price of rising gun crime

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 7 years ago

There are more licensed gun owners in the UK than you might think

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Inside the London shop selling rifles for £165,000

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Issues
Published 7 years ago

These countries search for ‘guns’ more than they search for ‘puppies’

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Bans, bro culture, boycotts – what’s going on with Uber?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The real reason cab drivers hate Uber

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Making sense of the Uber ban

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Hey, remember that MASSIVE financial crash ten years ago?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

I watched every film about the financial crisis on Netflix. This is what I found out

by Ellie Clayton in Entertainment
Published 7 years ago

How much do bankers really earn?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

More than thirty years after the mines closed, mining is still a huge part of the identity of Durham

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What’s the point of strikes?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

McStrike, low wage work and the future of unions

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

The women putting female empowerment on the union agenda

by Hannah Loosley in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Bosses obviously don’t like strikes. But how do they react if you go on one?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

We spoke to the guy who’s trying to bring unions into the 21st century

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Working independently is harder than it should be. We’re doing something about it

by Asher Dresner in Issues
Published 7 years ago

We asked economists whether strikes really work

by Victoria Waldersee in Issues
Published 7 years ago

This is what the McDonald’s rally looked like

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Have workers had enough of zero-hour contracts?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Would you pay more for McDonald’s if it meant staff were paid better?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Why is it so hard to get a roof over our heads?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What one housing expert wants you to know about renting

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Four creative ways people are avoiding high house prices

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 7 years ago

A UK campaign group thinks these five things will solve the housing crisis

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Can’t afford a house? Here are some of your options

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

What’s your experience of renting in London?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

“I thought spending more money would fix things. It didn’t”

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Why do banks charge overdraft fees?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Take our survey: How do you feel about economics?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Where to look online for advice on debt

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Have you ever been ripped off by hidden bank charges?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Factories can’t find enough workers because up to a quarter of applicants fail drugs tests

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

A UK pharmacy tried to control who had access to contraception

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Why do people care how much BBC stars get paid?

by Economy Team in Entertainment
Published 7 years ago

If a female Doctor Who was a big deal, imagine how people reacted to the first actual female doctor

by Economy Team in Entertainment
Published 7 years ago

I’m a nurse. This is how I feel about the public sector pay cap

by Anonymous in Issues
Published 7 years ago

Poorer students leave university with the most debt. But does it really matter?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 7 years ago

One in seven people in the UK spend more than half their income on rent

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We asked young people about the biggest change their country’s economy is facing

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

The big questions behind Grenfell, explained

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Economists want to write like Dr Seuss

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

I’ve lived all over the world. This housing crisis is everywhere

by Coleen Monroe-Knight in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Ten things you might not know about life as an immigrant

by Coleen Monroe-Knight in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Financial abuse is real, and it’s dangerous. Get out while you can

by Katy Brent in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We spoke to someone who studies drugs for a living about why legalizing weed is a good idea

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

What it’s like to work in a Western office as a Muslim

by Najma Ali in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We asked pro- and anti-Trump Christians what their faith says about his ideas

by Morven Oliver in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We spoke to a statistician, a Job Centre worker, and an unemployed person about the latest UK unemployment figures

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Monday to Friday, 9 to 5? Maybe it doesn’t have to be like this

by Rachel England in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Why Doris Day is right not to care about her age

by Economy Team in Entertainment
Published 8 years ago

These two girls traveled around the US without spending a cent

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We asked people whether they know what ‘triggering Article 50’ really means

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

It’s Article 50 day (baby?)

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Indian government workers are being told to work 18-20 hours a day or quit

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We spoke to the owners of a home care company to find out what’s going on with care in the UK

by Daniel Lapedus in Issues
Published 8 years ago

The price of an iceberg lettuce in the UK increased by 67%

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

5 things we learned from Beauty and the Beast

by Olivia Wills in Entertainment
Published 8 years ago

Confused about ‘Trumpcare’? Us too

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We asked EU nationals in the UK about their lives after Brexit

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

4 things you might not know about North Korea

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

An hour(ish) long speech, a load of one liners… but what does this year’s budget actually mean for you?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Meet the women making porn, for women

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Have you ever experienced sexism at work?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

This Girl Can? Women react to #femvertising empowerment ads

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

There was a conference about the future of industry in the north of England. So where were all the women?

by Kate Fox in Issues
Published 8 years ago

The truth about being a single mum

by Katy Brent in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We need to stop telling women they’re bad with money

by Daisy Buchanan in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Nicaragua has found a new way to protect sex workers

by Samantha Eyler in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Zina’s Kitchen is the Netherlands’ first business run by a female refugee

by Annabella Stieren in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Six crazy rules for women in the workplace, past and present

by Kimberly McIntosh in Issues
Published 8 years ago

45 percent of gamers are women. But in every other way, they’re still not equal to men

by Vanessa Tsai in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Does putting women on boards really matter?

by Olivia Wills in Issues
Published 8 years ago

8 ridiculous Barclaycard ads for women from the 60s and 70s you wouldn’t see today

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Everything you wanted to know about milk but were too afraid to ask

by Rachel England in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Small businesses could be hit hardest by the government’s changes to business rates. So why do it?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Could a new way of banking transform how you think about spending?

by Rich McEachran in Issues
Published 8 years ago

IBM’s new super-smart computer makes me think a robot tax is a good idea

by Nina Weber in Issues
Published 8 years ago

It’s apologized for the biggest blunder in Oscars history. So what is PwC, and what has it got to do with movies?

by Economy Team in Entertainment
Published 8 years ago

Money problems and mental health problems go hand in hand, and banks aren’t doing enough to help

by Rich McEachran in Issues
Published 8 years ago

It’s the 89th Academy Awards. Does anyone still care?

by Katy Brent in Entertainment
Published 8 years ago

The UK government rejected suggestions on how to close the gender pay gap

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Robots are already taking over – we interact with them every day

by Rachel England in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Twelve people got fired for not showing up for work on the Day Without Immigrants and people are really divided

by Kimberly Poff in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Amazon just announced 5,000 new jobs in the UK

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Romanian anti-corruption protests might not unseat the government, but they’re still full of hope

by Brindusa Ioana Nastasa in Issues
Published 8 years ago

When did we start buying and selling love?

by Rebecca Hastings in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Is it ever okay to hook up with your co-worker?

by Roisin Woolnough in Issues
Published 8 years ago

What self-employment taught me about self love

by Daisy Buchanan in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Who should pay for what on a first date?

by Daisy Buchanan in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Ed Sheeran’s angry about ticket resales and he’s not the only one

by Economy Team in Entertainment
Published 8 years ago

Loads of bankers met in Washington this week. What were they talking about?

by Raymond O'Lenic in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Could basic income solve the problem of robots taking our jobs?

by Jesse Norton in Issues
Published 8 years ago

The hidden lessons in Hidden Figures

by Kimberly Poff in Entertainment
Published 8 years ago

We asked Southern Rail drivers why they’re on strike

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Strikes, ‘humanitarian crisis’, and the busiest week ever. What’s going on, NHS?!

by Ben Pringle in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Everyone’s talking about inequality. Is it really so bad?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Have we reached peak stuff for period products?

by Kimberly Poff in Issues
Published 8 years ago

The #NoDAPL victory proves people power really does get stuff done

by Dalia Gebrial in Issues
Published 8 years ago

The lives of these three slaves help explain the realities of modern slavery

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Most Cuban Americans celebrated the death of Castro…but I wasn’t one of them

by Tyler August in Issues
Published 8 years ago

It’s World AIDS Day – here’s the cost of the trauma and the stigma

by Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Everyone’s talking about the ‘gig economy’. Here’s what that actually means

by Sarah Malone in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Looks like the ‘weed economy’ is here to stay

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

How Trump might have trumped Clinton with his very ‘real’ talk

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Here’s why the most gender equal country in the world still isn’t gender equal

by Samantha Eyler in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Do women in power actually make life better for women?

by Morven Oliver in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Five terror-inducing jargon terms explained

by Daniel Lapedus in Issues
Published 8 years ago

How phobias can affect our lives, careers, and ambitions

by Patricia Nilsson in Issues
Published 8 years ago

What does the civil war in Yemen have to do with the British economy?

by Ben Tippet in Issues
Published 8 years ago

500 nuns cycled across the Himalayas to raise awareness about human trafficking. Here’s what they want you to know

by Daniel Cullen in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Syrian voices on social media helped me attempt to understand the terrible costs of war

by Kieran Chapman in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We might have found a preventative cure for HIV/AIDs – but no one wants to pay for it

by Flavia Garcia in Issues
Published 8 years ago

How do we decide what to eat and what influences our choices?

by Olivia Wills in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Forty thousand ‘ugly’ lemons and the problem of food waste

by Daniel Lapedus in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Meet the vegetarian café that’s fighting the vicious spiral of poor diet, poverty and mental illness

by Bernadette Hyland in Issues
Published 8 years ago

My attempt at making sushi got me thinking about the problem of food waste around the world

by Nada Ihab in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Who rules your plate? The world’s biggest food companies and what they produce

by Dale Shaw in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Yep, I actually ate a microwave burger in my mission to examine our obsession with ready meals

by Clare Speak in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Denmark’s hippie commune pushes us outside our comfort zone. For that alone, it’s worth discovering

by Ioan Marc Jones in Issues
Published 8 years ago

A world of their own: Life inside the Calais and Idomeni refugee camps

by Elena Michael in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Our economies have literally kickstarted a new stage in Earth’s history. Welcome to the Anthropocene

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Homelessness is costing society big time. Is it time for a different approach?

by Conrad Bower in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Black Lives Matter activists say America’s justice system profits from racism. Are they right?

by Natalie Fiennes in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We broke another record! The earliest ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ ever. Let’s get out the fancy plastic champagne flutes

by Lorenzo Fränkel in Issues
Published 8 years ago

What does the failed coup in Turkey mean for refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos?

by Elena Michael in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We asked US soccer fans what they make of the pay gap between male and female players

by Sara Zayto in Issues
Published 8 years ago

Occupations, strikes, riots. Forget the football, WTF is going on in France?

by Ben Tippet in Issues
Published 8 years ago

We all know that money matters, but where did it come from and does it really make the world go round?

by Victoria Waldersee in Issues
Published 9 years ago

China is loaded, but it looks like it’s been seriously maxing out on credit. What’s going on and what does it mean?

by Mark Richards in Issues
Published 9 years ago

We’ve got more refugees in the world than ever before. These five charts explore how this happened

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Would EU believe it? Britain votes to leave the European Union. So, what happens now?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Why the economics of the gun industry is failing those tackling hate, and this time, homophobia

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Why do so many men in the financial sector commit suicide?

by Joe Earle in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Is ‘economic development’ always a good thing? David Mitchell made us wonder…

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Ha-Joon Chang on why we all need to learn (some) economics

by Ha-Joon Chang in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Talking about mental health is embarrassing, expensive, and difficult. This has got to change

by Joe Earle in Issues
Published 9 years ago

The UK’s government wants to link tuition fees to inflation, but what does that mean?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

The UK government’s ideas for prison reform make some pretty huge assumptions about human beings

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

A cattle herder in Cameroon, a brain surgeon in Texas, a farmer in Yorkshire: a look at working days around the world

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

Barack’s on board with our mission to get people talking about the economy

by Economy Team in Issues
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Leaving that dead-end job for a new life in the ‘sharing economy’

by Economy Team in Issues
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This new podcast explores the darker side of the ‘sharing economy’

by Economy Team in Issues
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Does the new the UK national living wage still mean ‘livin’ on a prayer’ for those earning it?

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We spoke to Danny Dorling about inequality, the Panama Papers, and the power of a good map

by Economy Team in Issues
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What is Opportunity Cost?

by Lukas Boehm in Issues
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If you’re rich, and you don’t feel like paying tax, don’t bother. Sound good to everyone?

by Victoria Waldersee in Issues
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What are the ‘Panama Papers’, and what’s going on with tax havens?

by Economy Team in Issues
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Why benefit cuts for disabled people will only damage the UK economy

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What is a budget anyway?

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Why people should only work six hours a day

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These five refugees are building furniture from boats used to cross the Med

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These 5 films reveal the fascinating reality of globalization

by Economy Team in Issues
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Is it time to rethink our approach to work?

by Economy Team in Issues
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George Magnus on oil, China, and why politics will trump economics in 2016

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 9 years ago

We really, really need to talk about money

by Dora Meade in Issues
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What are Pay Ratios?

by Charlie Young in Issues
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Getting a bank account can be tricky when you’re homeless, so here’s how I did it

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What is Basic Income?

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20 short films that ask some big questions about the US economy

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