Youth unemployment in the UK has hit another record. More 16 to 24-year olds are out of
work than ever. The unemployment rate in this group is now a shocking 20.5 percent, which amounts to nearly a million young people out of work. Of those, 600,000 have never had a job since leaving
school or college.
All unemployment is bad news, but youth unemployment is particularly bad news. We want young people who leave education to get a job, learn the skills and disciplines of work and build up the experience that will help them be upwardly mobile. That benefits them, obviously, and it benefits the whole community too.
But instead of young people getting into the work stream, too many are getting into the welfare stream. The skills they are learning are those of how to live on social benefits, rather than in work.
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