With UK unemployment rising, will the government’s plan for young people pay off? An economist’s view
- Written by Rachel Scarfe, Lecturer in Economics, University of Stirling
Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockThere are nearly one million young people in the UK who are not in employment, education or training (so-called Neets). After falling in number during the 2010s before the pandemic, this cohort of 16 to 24-year-olds has grown from 750,000 only six years ago. This is a worrying shift, for several reasons.
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