According to a study by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1.7 million people aged 16 to 24 are in poverty compared with 1.4 million people aged over 65. Chief executive Julia Unwin said the young are being “locked out” of well-paid jobs and affordable homes. The government said the percentage of all people in poverty is the lowest since the 1980s. Young people were also four times more likely to be unemployed than the population as a whole, according to the
If you want to live an incredible life and achieve amazing things, you have to decide. Nobody ever stood on the summit of Everest and said “oh wow, this is a surprise.” It was a vision years before it became a reality. Living an incredible life is no accident. You have to start knowing what you want to achieve. You need to be clear on who you need to become in order to achieve what you want. And then you
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Youth unemployment remains an issue across developed economies. In some, more than half of those aged 20-24 are not in employment, education or training (NEET). In a recent index from PwC, the firm looks at how youth employment engagement has changed since 2005, finding that the situation declined significantly in Spain and Italy. For the UK, reducing the NEET rate to that of the best-in-region has the potential to add £55 billion, while for the 34 countries together an additional
