unemployment
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Young people should have a legal guarantee of a job, training or employment support, the author of a major review of youth unemployment has told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
The Daily Telegraph says the Labour Party grandee Lord Blunkett wants ministers to slash their own budgets to pay for the welfare reform which is expected to result from Alan Milburn's review of youth unemployment.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
The unemployment rate in California rose from 3.9% in December 2000 to 6.5% a year later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
The country is confronting a brutal property crash, sluggish consumer spending and high youth unemployment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly higher rate of employment in the age group sixteen to nineteen.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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