The Government has launched a strategic plan to enable Britain to thrive in the key sectors of the future - creating wealth and jobs in environmental technologies, digital industries, biosciences and advanced manufacturing. Labour is investing now so we are best placed to take advantage of the upturn. We will prepare the British economy for the jobs of the future. Labour’s Business Secretary...

Last year, the government scrapped the Future Jobs Fund. This year, their own research found that the Fund changed "frustration and despair" into "a real sense of hope", gave young people self-belief, raised their aspirations, and played a "vital role" in helping them get the skills and confidence to get jobs.

One really good thing that James Purnell did when he was a government minister was to set up the Future Jobs Fund. The Future Jobs Fund subsidises employers to create jobs for young people who have been looking for work for a year – the subsidy is roughly enough to employ someone for 25 hours/week for

Stimulus Creates A Limited Number Of "Real" New Jobs When The President Can Lead By Example, He Chooses Not To We have all heard the cries of success from the Administration on the supposed success of the Stimulus Bill in creating new jobs for the American people who are so desperate to find them. As it turns out the statistics that have been trumpeted have been hyped and are prone to politic...

The government’s list of £6.2 bn of ‘savings’ includes one item that breaks my heart: the abolition of the Future Jobs Fund. This has been the most positive and progressive jobs programme for a quarter of a century, creating temporary but real jobs for young unemployed people around the country.

Labour Councillors have welcomed the news that Westminster City Council has been successful with its application to the Government’s ‘Future Jobs Fund’ to provide 95 young people with: * pre-employment training; * a 6 month supported placement, and; * on-going employment support. Employment placements will be in a range of sectors including green jobs, childcare, hospitality and ...

Loren Thompson is making sense with this. An especially troubling aspect of the present situation is that the cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act to reduce deficits could grow bigger if the president’s jobs bill passes, because the special committee would need to find additional savings to cover the price-tag for its package of tax changes and targeted spending. So in the current environ...

Southampton MP's John Denham and Alan Whitehead today jointly called on the Tories to abandon their plans to scrap extra jobs for young people. Itchen MP John Denham said: "We have got to keep investing in jobs through the recovery. That's why I am backing the Future Jobs Fund which will bring more jobs to the area, jobs that David Cameron wants to slash – it would be just like pre...

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today held a press conference at Labour HQ on the future of the economy. Gordon Brown said: "This is not a game show, or just a TV spectacle, it is a General Election to decide your future: your future security, your future jobs, your future prosperity. "There is one party in this campaign that wants the focus to be on policy and on subs...

WASHINGTON: Faced with worsening forecasts for the economy, President-elect Barack Obama is expanding his economic recovery plan and will seek to create 3 million jobs in the next two years, up from a goal of 2.5 million jobs set just last month, several advisers to Obama said over the weekend.