THE start of Apprenticeship Week is – and ought always to be – the opportunity to celebrate good-quality opportunities for young people in the region.Read
IN its single-minded focus on reducing the public spending deficit quickly and, it would seem, at all costs, the coalition Government is making many clumsy mistakes – deepening its unpopularity as a direct result of the harm it is doing to the most vulnerable people in society.Read
PERHAPS it's a continuation of the blame game, maybe it's an indication of the increasing desperation of a government fuelled by a total failure to progress any kind of economic success.Read
THE last couple of weeks have been dominated by a persistent and totally unwelcome noise - the sound of the wheels coming off the UK and European economies, with dramatic consequences for working families.Read
THE number of young people not in employment, education or training, ‘NEETs’, is an indicator of how well the economic and social policies and practices are working.Read
THE Government is clearly under pressure. With unemployment at a generational high and showing little signs of changing any time soon, more and more economists and commentators are urging the Government to recognise the current plan isn’t working and to change its strategy.Read
SATURDAY witnessed the largest rally of people with disabilities that anyone can remember happening in Newcastle as part of a national series of 'hardest hit' events throughout the UK.Read
IN the run up to William Green's Sign of the Times piece in last week's Journal, I was asked if I thought there was a 1930s feel about the economic and social experience in the region. It doesn’t quite feel like Grapes of Wrath territory, but there certainly is a growing sense of anxiety.Read
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