Half of all out of work young people who are not in full-time education have never had a job, according to new IPPR analysis, released ahead of the latest unemployment statistics Continue reading
“Youth unemployment was rising since well before the current economic downturn, but the fallout from the financial crisis has brought it to the top of the government’s agenda and generated a plethora of publications and initiatives to tackle the problem.” write Tess Lanning and Katerina Rudiger in Youth unemployment in Europe: lessons for the UK (Adapted chosen excerpts by … Continue reading
IPPR urges ‘job guarantee’ to tackle ‘hidden crisis’ of long-term unemployment Almost a million people will have been out of work for more than a year by the end of 2012, according to new analysis by the think tank IPPR. The think tank is today raising the alarm over the growing number of people who have … Continue reading