Guest post by Dr Pauline Conroy: Welfare for work

Pauline Conroy 03/09/2010

Pauline Conroy: The proposal that 10,000 unemployed people will be offered 19.5 hours of social or environmentally useful work a week is an answer to a question that few are asking. The question ought to be: how can the economy provide skills, further education, creative opportunities and decent employment for those the tens of thousands who are …