Betrayed Generation

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Yet, according to the ILO, the decrease is only due to the growing number of inactives who, discouraged, give up looking for a new job. There is a second aspect highlighted by the report: This occurs today especially in countries that are towing the world economy. New generations today will not enjoy the system of social welfare which their fathers did.

They will not have pensions, a social safety net, health assistance, cultural resources and all that we are used to calling the welfare state. To save what is salvageable, the ILO proposes the development of an integrated strategy for growth and the creation of jobs with a focus on young people, to improve the quality of jobs through strengthened labour standards and to invest in formation.

A good program, on paper. L'Osservatore Romano Vatican City.

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All rights reserved powered by. Notice This site uses cookies Cookies are small text files that help us make your web experience better. By using any part of the site you consent to the use of cookies. More information about our cookies policy can be found on the Terms of Use. Young people weary of seeking work. All the talk of green shoots misses the point that we are facing a social catastrophe that many in the British establishment lack the nerve to fight or even recognise. As of May, unemployment stood at 2. The figure is as deceptive now as it was in Margaret Thatcher's day, and you must add on the other 3 million on invalidity, lone parent and disability benefits to find the full jobless figure.

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Officially, the government does not make projections on how fast it expects the count to rise - ministers can imagine what the opposition and press would do if they leaked. But the sharper minds in Whitehall cannot help letting their fears that Britain is facing a rerun of the s slip out in documents they assume hardly anyone reads. The most alarming show that Labour wants to break with the lateth-century doctrine that the state cannot provide jobs but only give the workless skills employers may find useful.

It plans to intervene directly and create a minimum of , jobs for young people who have been out of work for more than a year via its Future Jobs Fund. However admirable the government's break with supply-side economics is, the assumptions behind it are breathtaking. At the last count, the Department for Work and Pensions said that a mere 7, to year-olds had been unemployed for one year or longer.

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Now ministers are quietly predicting that long-term youth unemployment will increase fold. Equally obviously, the worst of this recession is not over but just beginning.

Parts of the government are acting, but others carry on as if the crash never happened. For instance, it is self-evident to anyone who thinks about unemployment that the class of needs to be sheltered from the storm in schools or colleges if they are 16, universities if they are 18 or offered the hope of work if they are Yet the government's record of diverting the young from unemployment has been appalling. As late as March, the Learning and Skills Council was saying it did not have the money to fund places at sixth-form colleges next term. In fairness, ministers have cleaned up the mess, but they have done nothing to stop the obscenity of universities freezing student numbers in a recession.

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Denham was imposing a freeze because while Gordon Brown was still "living the dream" that he could spend without restraint, he raised state aid for students from comparatively wealthy families. As a result, the government cannot afford to respond to the crisis by increasing student numbers, and universities must deny places to about 50, young and adult learners. Meanwhile, the organisers of the Rooseveltian New Deal of the Mind, who want to create work for graduates, and the Federation of Small Businesses are screaming at ministers to revive the best idea of the Thatcher years and encourage the enterprising to set out on their own.

To date all they have received is a puny project that leaves potential artists and entrepreneurs no better off than if they had stayed unemployed. I do not wish to be too harsh on government. The media are worse, and talk only of cuts and not about how limited resources can be moved to where they are needed. The public-sector trade unions are worse still, and prefer to protect pay rises than oppose job cuts.