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		<title>Nudge Psychology and the Unemployed.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nudge Psychology and the Unemployed. A survey using a large questionnaire of 240 questions has been reduced to 48 questions by the Nudge Unit at number 10 Downing Street. The original design was by an American not-for-profit organisation, who at first objected to the way it was used by the Nudge Unit. The purpose of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=206&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyds Bank: Bonuses, Redundancies and agency staff.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lloyds Bank: Bonuses, Redundancies, and agency staff. Lloyds Bank has just paid 25 senior staff over £1 million pay packages , including bonuses. However, some staff, including a former chief executive, have had some of their bonuses clawed back. The chief executive received £3.8 million in 2012, which included a bonus of £1.5 million. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=203&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Bank of Scotland. Bonus Time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland: Bonus Time! For fixing LIBOR interests the bank has been fined : £87 Million to the Financial Services Authority; $325 million to the United States Commodity Futures Trading; $150 million to the United States Department of Justice. Investigating authorities have found RBS “as a firm”, not involved in “deliberate misconduct”. Only [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=201&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Changes in the Economically Inactive since Census in 2001.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Census for 2011 for England and Wales is published today. The figures below are in thousands. The number of retired men has increased from 620 to 2161. The number of retired women has increased from 1148 to 2975. The number of permanently sick and disabled men has increased from 822 to 1131.The number [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=198&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are Trade Unions for? Here are some obvious answers. Increasing members’ pay: Karl Marx was ambivalent about this. He called it an economic act, as opposed to a political act. However, to ask for increased pay for all workers was a political act; and he thought unions could become political, in this narrow sense, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=195&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Splitting Retail from Investment Banking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Banks: Splitting Retail from Investment Banking? For the last month or two major banks in Britain have been talking about this split. Barclays remains sceptical, arguing that splitting would affect the way each part helps to generate profits for the other. So a small business, with only a retail account with the bank, might [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=193&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title> What are Libor Rates?.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  What are Libor rates? They are rates of interest that banks believe they will have to pay for borrowing money over future months ; and covering a variety of different currencies.   Who sets them?   All the major banks, the British Bankers Association, and the Treasury are all involved.   Is fraud involved [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=184&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Libor Rates: Transparency and Secrecy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing Libor Rates: Transparency and Secrecy. What are Libor rates? They are rates of interest that banks believe they will have to pay for borrowing money over future months ; and covering a variety of different currencies. Who sets them? All the major banks, the British Bankers Association, and the Treasury are all involved. Is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=177&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Working Unemployed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Working Unemployed? Who are they? They are interns, students in and out of the university term time, post 16 year olds working in local shops. Most of this new group are under 35 years of age. They are technically unemployed because they are not paid any wage. They may, or may not get [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=175&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Industrial Innovation the road to new growth? An influential economist from Sussex University, Professor Mariana Mazzucato, has been arguing in the press, and at a variety of public meetings and seminars, that state led investment in innovation is the way out of the current economic recession. Her basic argument is that the state takes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whyworktoday2967.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16390187&#038;post=173&#038;subd=whyworktoday2967&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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