Economy, Business & Finance
Are Britain's richest families worth more than the poorest 20%?
We look into today's reports on wealth and income inequality in the UK. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
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
Zero-hours contracts: do new figures show a sharp rise in their use?
With a wide range of estimates available on the number of people working on zero-hours contracts, do new figures show that the total doubled in 2013? Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Is the Universal Credit roll-out costing £190,000 per claimant?
The government has claimed that its flagship welfare reform policy could save the taxpayer as much as £38 billion over the next decade, but today a Labour Treasury spokesperson said that it was in fact costing £190,000 per claimant Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How crucial to Scottish public spending are reliable oil and gas receipts?
The future of North Sea oil and gas has been the unknown factor underpinning many disagreements between the Yes and No camps in the Scottish independence debate. So just how vital is it to the amount of money that would be available to a sovereign Scottish government? Read
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Europe
Does Europe account for half of the world's welfare spending?
With Europe and welfare reform both topics at the top of the political agenda at the moment, Chancellor George Osborne used his speech to Open Europe this week to claim that European countries "can't go on" spending the amounts they do on social protection. Read
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Europe
New Year's resolution #3: I will not repeat inaccurate claims
As Oscar Wilde might have said had he jacked in the play writing and become a factchecker, "to make a mistake once is unfortunate, to make it twice looks like … Read
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Europe
Are there 600,000 unemployed EU migrants in the UK?
A leaked European Commission report was at the centre of a media storm this weekend, with the Sunday Telegraph claiming that it revealed the "true scale of European immigration". Now that the report has been made public, what can we conclude from it? Read
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Europe
A burden on British business? The extent of EU regulation
According to a new report, the EU has generated more than 3,500 new business directives since the May 2010 election. But with some sectors more tightly regulated than others, the load isn't evenly distributed. We've looked at the detail of the research. Read
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Europe
Nick Clegg's speech on Europe
Today Nick Clegg warned that "isolationist forces are on the rise" and those in favour of remaining in the EU need to stand up and be counted. As he argued the case for the UK retaining its membership, he made a series of claims. We've looked at his evidence. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Conservative conference 2013: exports, jobs and the deficit
Chancellor George Osborne reiterated in his conference speech yesterday that his economic plan is working. Here's our look at the evidence he points to in support of this claim. Read
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