Sentences with phrase «when youth unemployment»

At a time when youth unemployment is at 20 %, slashing the Education Maintenance Allowance and tripling university fees, risks alienating a generation of young people and losing their talent at society's longer term cost.

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When the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance dutifully looked into youth unemployment last summer, it heard familiar tales of outrage and woe from university student groups and organized labour fretting about student debt, precarious work and temporary foreign workers.

It will take politics — not markets — to break this bad equilibrium, the moment when democracies cease to tolerate youth unemployment of 58pc in Greece, 57.4 pc in Spain, 41.2 pc in Italy and 36.5 pc in Portugal.

I post when I want but I don't hold unemployment, illness, retirement or youth against anyone, Christian or Atheist, who wants to fill their time posting here.

Why does Canada have a youth unemployment rate of over 15 per cent; a federal debt $ 150 billion higher than when the they took office in 2006; a federation weakened by federal - provincial squabbling over health, training and pensions; greater uncertainty about retirement; widening income inequality?

Over the past two years, when the economy was totally stagnant, and when our economy has needed a quick and fast - acting shot in the arm, we have advocated a temporary VAT cut — alongside infrastructure spending, action on youth unemployment and targeted tax measures for business as part of our five point plan for growth.

Continental myopia will be difficult to sustain when immigrant flows reach Greece and other weak European economies as high unemployment, combined with political turmoil pushes MENA youth abroad.

When an economic crisis combines high youth unemployment and an impoverished middle class, there is a real risk of a rise in right - wing extremism.

The Conservatives have accused Labour of seeking to «talk down the economy» by latching on to the recent youth unemployment figures when the total number out of work in the UK fell by 97,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to December.

You mention youth unemployment: The Tories made a dodgy headline claim before xmas that we had the worst youth unemployment in Europe, when fact is we are 13th / 24 on the youth unemployment rate.

Commenting on the latest jobless figures and the news that youth unemployment has crossed the one million mark, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «These shocking figures on youth unemployment come at a time when the Government is inflicting severe cuts on 16 - 19 education.

This is a particularly startling figure because it represents a # 2bn rise on the estimated cost of youth unemployment announced by Miliband just three months ago when he launched the Association of Chief Executive and Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) commission on youth unemployment in February.

It had worked well in the 1990s, when Labour was last in opposition, forcing the Tories to defend the largesse of the fat cats while generating funds to help tackle youth unemployment.

According to a recent report from the Potsdam Institute, the higher emissions reduction target would also create six million jobs across Europe, at a time when unemployment among European youth has reached record levels.