Thinktank CentreForum says move would rake in extra £2.3bn for UK Treasury and help pay off budget deficit.

ONS data shows impact of high inflation and paltry wage growth on household disposable income.

Welfare-to-work schemes will never work until the labour market has decent jobs, warned Green.

Government cuts, VAT rise, underemployment - Shane Croucher asks - how much more are Britons supposed to take?

ONS labour market data shows worsening picture for both employed and unemployed.

Institute for Public Policy Research makes youth unemployment prediction and highlights London and North East as most affected regions.

Positive employment data ahead of Chancellor George Osborne's speech, though wage growth figues show continued "cut in the real value of pay" says ONS.

ONS data shows UK unemployment rate drops to 7.8 percent despite economy contracting.

ONS data also shows employment rate rising despite weak UK economy.

Number of employed people wanting more hours at work shoots up 47.3 percent says Office for National Statistics.

The UK jobs front continues to be grim, even as a Trades Union Congress (TUC) report, published on Tuesday, has shown that unemployment figures rose 97 percent in local council areas over the past year.

The next generation of young men and women all across the world could soon face even higher rates of unemployment, as a consequence of high poverty levels in developing countries and unstable work situations in developed countries, the International Labor Organization warns.

On 17 December 2010, a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire because a female municipal official and her aides had had his goods confiscated. This sparked protests against the Government for a variety of grievances, social, economic and political.

The IMF estimates the U.S. gross outstanding public debt to GDP ratio at approximately 100% for 2011. Not good, but the U.S. can point to Japan and Italy as having higher ratios. But probably not many think that Japan's dismal economic picture is one that the U.S. should try to model itself on. Italy also has more than its share of economic issues and an economic framework that not many countries aspire to.

A report from the Higher Education Policy Institute has shown men graduating from university are finding it significantly harder to find a job than women graduates, but are likely to be paid more if they do.