The world needs to wake up to “the ticking timebomb” of youth unemployment in developing countries and treat the issue as seriously as humanitarian disasters and global efforts to eradicate disease, a group of British MPs has warned. In its latest report, the Commons International Development Committee (IDC) says population increases – especially in Africa – are making it harder for people to earn a livelihood, let alone find full-time employment. With 600 million young
All habits are developed by repetition. If you repeat something bad for you, it will become a habit. If you repeat something good for you, it will become a habit. Resolve to stick through the important tasks that you chose to start. As you repeatedly finish what you start, it will become more and more natural to you. Three Step Guide for Better Productive Days Here is a morning guide for being intentionally productive: 1- Write down the top 5 most important
Life is not hard, it is easy. That is the problem. Why do we stop chasing our dreams? Because it is so easy to wake up, do the minimum, eat, sleep and repeat. Meet someone, bring up kids, drift and die… It is easy to live. That is the curse. It is easy to look at a dream as something far off in the future, a thing. It is also a verb, it has to be chased. A dream is all the steps. This
The number of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds who have been unemployed for more than a year has risen by almost 50% since the coalition came to power, according to figures released by the Labour party. There are now 41,000 16- to 24-year-olds from black, asian and minority ethnic [BAME] communities who are long-term unemployed – a 49% rise from 2010, according to an analysis of official figures by the House of Commons Library. At the same time, there was a
Unemployment and a lack of youth engagement is throwing disadvantaged young people into the path of paramilitary groups, it has been claimed. International Fund for Ireland chairman Dr Adrian Johnston said more resources were needed to steer disaffected youth away from risk. Speaking at a special cross-border and cross-community youth event in Monaghan, Dr Johnston said there was a willingness among some young people to embrace sectarian violence. “We cannot escape the reality that too many young people, in both loyalist and
