A champion of young people, Londoner Rajeeb has since founded Enternships.com to aid youngsters find secure paid internships.
A champion of young people, Londoner Rajeeb has since founded Enternships.com to aid youngsters secure paid internships, and also co-founded StartUp Britain to nurture entrepreneurial culture.
She was working unpaid in an art gallery, hoping to secure paid work, when, in order to continue claiming jobseeker's allowance, she was forced to work unpaid at Poundland.
Many of her members would like paid employment and quite a lot do voluntary work, she said, but it was difficult for them to secure paid work.
Following the withdrawal of public funding, the GB women's indoor programme was in danger of closing down but the majority of the team were able to secure paid professional contracts around Europe.
In his first year in office, in 2014, the mayor secured paid sick leave and rolled out universal pre-kindergarten.
We secured paid sick leave for 243,000 women, who will no longer have to choose between their jobs and their health.
Two people secured paying customers during the programme, Currie tells me, and three of the 10 have since quit their jobs to focus on their projects.
His government introduced, against considerable opposition, the 40-hour workweek and secured paid vacations and collective bargaining for many workers; it nationalized the chief war industries and the Bank of France, and carried other social reforms.
Not long ago, he sent Michelle Obama a letter proposing that, given the problems her husband is having with his health-care platform, she should give him a wifely nudge in the direction of Scandinavian-style reform: improving maternal mortality, securing paid parental leave, providing reliable and affordable day care.
