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The government has announced wide-ranging reforms designed to tackle economic inactivity in a bid to bring more than two million people back into work.
The £55 million drive will include overhauling the job search process, expanding NHS mental health support and tackling obesity.
Other plans include providing additional employment and training opportunities for young people of ‘generation Covid’.
But does this clash with business leaders’ warnings about job cuts fuelled by the first Labour budget’s tax hikes?
The Standard podcast is joined by Tom Pollard, head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation.
In part two, Which? consumer expert Rob Lilley-Jones on why Black Friday deals could offer the same value at other times the year.
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