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List of press Articles

  1. Time to answer 'West Lothian Question' in Westminster Parliament

    English votes for English-only laws plan

  2. Women do worse while men do better - unemployment falls

    Behind headline fall is worrying news for women

  3. Almost a million out of work for more than a year by end of 2012

    Think tank urges 'job guarantee' to tackle 'hidden crisis' of long-term unemployment

  4. HMT wasting £40bn Northern economic potential

    The UK economy would be £40billion better off if Northern economic potential was properly utilised and brought closer in line with other English regions. Narrowing the difference in output by only 50 per cent between the North of England…

  5. Clegg energy tariff switch plan "puts the cart before the horse"

    ? Families pay £330 more than their neighbours to use the same amount of energy

  6. Extra 100,000 people without a job this year

    A year and a half before unemployment falls

  7. Modern women marrying men of the same or lower social class

    Shift in marriage patterns has implications for social mobility and inequality

  8. IPPR backs Chancellor's 'granny tax'

    hink tank welcomes freezing pensioner tax allowances

  9. Budget: "a missed opportunity to jump start the economy"

    hink tank welcomes freezing pensioner tax allowances

  10. Budget 2012: Transport investment in the North welcome but doesn't go far enough

    The announcements made about investment in the Northern Hub in George Osborne's budget today are a good start to boost jobs growth in the North of England, but more needs to be done to bring down unemployment, according to the North's…

  11. Osborne urged to invest in transport in the North to create much-needed jobs

    n investment equivalent to just 2.5 per cent of the cost of HS2 would create 20,000-30,000 extra jobs in the North of England and would add over £4bn to the Northern economy.

  12. Northern Economic Summary: March 2012

    2011 ended badly for the UK economy and the North did not escape the downturn during the final quarter, with the gap between the unemployment rate in the North and the South East opening up to near record levels.