Recent murmurs of green shoots have been somewhat undermined this week, as a range of news stories have highlighted the rising unemployment levels amongst young people.
The Mirror reported that more than one in four youngsters are now out of work in Britain's worst unemployment blackspots (taken from the results of the TUC survey). That's over 1/3 of Britain's unemployed.
A look at the blogosphere reveals a real concern that we are headed towards a lost-generation of unemployed, as seen with previous recessions. See below link for this heart-breaking account...
The impact of this is huge; entire communities where parents did not work, resulting (speculatively) in an apathy, almost a self-fulfilling prophecy that the next generation do not work.
http://25andunemployed.blogspot.com/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/13/millions-of-under-25s-out-of-work-as-one-in-four-youngsters-unemployed-115875-21670451/
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