Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Universal Credit warning as £20 cut could see 1.5 million claimants struggle this winter
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to Postcards from the North - a newsletter from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer Williams Around 1.5 million people on Universal Credit could be forced into hardship this winter due to the “disastrous decision” to withdraw the £20 per week uplift, experts at Citizens Advice have warned.
Research carried out by the independent advice provider suggested that two-thirds of working Universal Credit claimants are bracing themselves for a struggle to meet ends meet when the weekly uplift is abolished at the end of September.
The organisation said as many as 600,000 working Universal Credit claimants are worried they might not be able to afford food or other basic necessities like toiletries after the reduction in their income is
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