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Bad jobs or benefits? Milburn should force employers to help the young | Richard Partington
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This week’s long-awaited review will call for benefit cuts but lack of entry-level jobs is also driving the crisis ‘I’m scared about my future’: young people on the stress and desperation of jobseeking A generation is being sold short. Almost a million young people are not in edu
This week’s long-awaited review will call for benefit cuts but lack of entry-level jobs is also driving the crisis ‘I’m scared about my future’: young people on the stress and desperation of jobseeking A generation is being sold short. Almost a million young people are not in education, employment or training (Neet). Austerity and the Covid pandemic cast a lengthy shadow, AI is upending the jobs market, and the cost of living is soaring – all under the microscope of the social media age.
This week Alan Milburn’s landmark report on young people and work will bring Britain to a fork in the road: either continue on this path of state and market failure or sharply change direction. Continue reading...
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