Youth Unemployment

  • PoliticsAOL

    Young 'lacking work experience'

    Fewer young people are gaining work experience while they are in full-time education, according to a new study. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank said that half of all unemployed young people who are not in education have

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    Youth unemployment: the emotional and monetary cost

    German chancellor Angela Merkel has called it the 'biggest crisis facing Europe' and in Britain it sits at nearly 1 million: youth

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    Youth unemployment 'through roof'

    Youth unemployment has "gone through the roof", with a huge increase in the number of long-term jobless since the coalition came to power, Labour has said. The Opposition said the number of 18 to 24-year-olds out of work for over a year

  • BusinessAOL

    Internships: What you need to know

    Once just a week-long stint in a shop, café or office while still at school, work experience has evolved into extended professional placements now known as internships. So why the rise in popularity and are internships genuinely

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    Tory MP late for TV debate on youth jobs

    A Conservative minister was yesterday late for a TV slot to debate on the subject of apprenticeships. Matthew Hancock's poor punctuality caused him to miss his early morning slot on ITV1's Daybreak show where he was due to defend a

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    Labour youth jobless plan outlined

    Long-term unemployed young people will be guaranteed a job under Labour but face being stripped of benefits if they refuse the offer, Ed Miliband is due to announce. All under-25s out of work for more than one year will be given paid

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    What statement means for the young

    Georgie Gillard/PA The chancellor said his autumn statement focused on stimulating the supply of credit, boosting business enterprise and helping families with the cost of living But what does this mean for the country's youth trying to