Youth unemployment – The Telegraph and the Henry Jackson launching a competition with £10,000 prize

The level of unemployment now confronting those starting their working lives – as well as the deep headache it is giving policymakers – has prompted The Telegraph to partner with the Henry Jackson Initiative (HJI), an economic and public policy think tank. Today, we are together launching an essay competition complete with a £10,000 prize – full details of which are contained in the panel (see right) – designed to generate debate and ideas on how to begin solving this growing problem.

Summers, who has previously collaborated with the HJI, argues that it is vital that answers are sought far and wide. “A lot of the good ideas are not going to come from people who are professional economists pouring over statistical analysis,” Summers told The Sunday Telegraph.

“They’ll come from entrepreneurs, teachers working with young people and people in public policy. I applaud the effort [of the competition] to cast the net wide.”…

via Youth unemployment: the big issue for the world’s economy – Telegraph.