We check facts about the UK economy. This includes money issues like prices, taxes, jobs, people out of work, and housing. We also look at how these things are different in each part of the UK.
Economy, Business & Finance
The ethnic group your name is associated with does have an impact on the likelihood of your success in job applications, according to research from 2009. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
It's claimed that it would be unconstitutional for the House of Lords to block planned tax credit changes. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
"That's the data, that's the facts". We've taken a look at some of the claims on last night's BBC Question Time. Read
In August the Department for Work and Pensions released statistics about people who died while on benefits, or in the year they came off benefits. But the figures were confusing. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Factchecking some of the claims we noticed in this week's Prime Minister's Questions. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The House of Lords has been discussing whether, under the 'Salisbury Convention', it's obliged to pass the Energy Bill because it emerged from the Conservative manifesto. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Six million jobs were paid at below the living wage in 2014, according to ONS figures. But that doesn't mean six million individual workers were. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Based on guaranteed fixed prices, new nuclear power is expected to be cheaper than offshore wind but more expensive than onshore wind. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Conservative election manifesto was ambiguous on what it meant by ending "any new public subsidy" for onshore wind farms. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Factchecking some of the claims we noticed in this week's Prime Minister's Questions. Read
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