Sentences with phrase «youth joblessness»

He said Education and job creation would constitute the major trust of his government as he would work to boost the standard of education by slashing fees, payment of bursary and ending youth joblessness.

General secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the unemployment figures published in July 2012, describing them as «excellent news», but he pointed out that long - term youth joblessness was up by 18,000 on the quarter to 421,000, and urged the government to prioritise tackling long - term youth unemployment.

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We know that black youth in some of the city slums have a real rate of joblessness approaching 50 per cent, leaving them to walk the streets hungry and without a decent means of earning a living.

This is to enable him to convince the company to employ some aggrieved New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth in the area who are protesting their joblessness following the assumption of office of the NPP government.

The President noted that, the joblessness and under - employment that have blighted the lives of Ghana's youth will be overcome, «when we provide laboratories and workshops and the qualified teachers that would turn out skilled school leavers.»

And this at a time when child poverty, fuel poverty, both youth and adult joblessness, and housing evictions are all rising.