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Nick Peters hits the shop floor for another packed edition on workplace issues. This week, social mobility, the goal of productive work and enterprise, comes under attack. Nick Peters talks to Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, about the idea that social mobility could be cruel or even evil. Digital skill levels among young people mean employers are finding it harder to get qualified staff and many young people risk missing out on good jobs - Nick Peters finds out more from Nigel Walsh at CapGemini. The Prime Minister says he wants ex-offenders to have much more support moving from jail into jobs and productive lives. It’s already happening - Nick Peters discovers how from Jane Gould, a trustee of Christian charity CleanSheet. And we head east to Vietnam to meet the "Digital Nomads", young people who are taking the idea of remote working to extraordinary lengths.

Sarah Pennells is joined in the studio by money experts Frank Van Lerven from Positive Money, and on the phone with Steve Keen from Kingston University and Chris Skinner from the Financial Services Club to ask the question just what is money? From Bitcoin, to where money comes from, Sarah and her guests answer your questions live only on Ask Sarah.

Sarah Pennells is joined in the studio by personal finance reporter Katie Morley, and experts from the National Landlords Associate, Generation Rent, Camelot and the Money Advice Service to discuss the renting crisis facing young people.

Billy Bambrough's been speaking to Oliver Hatfield, Director of Fertilizers at Interger, and Suzanne Burnett, President of the West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, about the proposed £1.7bn potash mine in North Yorkshire, by developer Sirius Minerals, which is being discussed at meetings today.

Businesswoman Gina Miller of SCM Direct and the Money She website joins Georgie in the studio to discuss the money stories making the news including: the latest from Greece, a new ban on so-called bonus 'buyouts' and why British Banks are worried that new regulations could mean they lose out to foreign banks.

Rita Lobo and Marc Shoffman talking about the idea of trivializing poverty and what religion can do to help the poor in society.