Sentences with phrase «youth unemployment last»

Youth unemployment last year increased to more than 20 million as the talent gap becomes more defined.

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.

Not exact matches

However, the most recent labour force survey from Statistics Canada showed signs of hope: youth unemployment was 13.9 % in March, a 0.8 % decrease from the previous month and 0.5 % lower than the same period last year.

Last but not least, socio - economic challenges are increasingly evident, with unprecedented rates of youth unemployment, an ageing population and the European welfare systems increasingly under pressure.

But Youth unemployment, counting 16 to 24 - year - olds, rose by 11,000 to 974,000, the biggest increase since the start of last year.

Ministers will be hoping their # 1 billion youth contract programme can make a difference to the jobs market, which saw overall unemployment rise to its highest level since January 1996 in the three months to November last year.

Yet their record on youth unemployment in the last Parliament was dismal.

The last of the series of debates involving youth representatives of the various political parties, has ended at the University of Ghana campus, Legon, where debaters tackled unemployment and corruption among others.

And, in more gloomy news, figures last week showed unemployment reached 2.57 million and youth unemployment almost reach the one million barrier.

«Our recent research shows that 80 % of employers believe apprenticeships will help reduce youth unemployment and an overwhelming 100 % of employers felt that Apprenticeships give young people the skills they need to find lasting work.

With youth unemployment hitting a record high and the total number of people out of work the highest since the Tories were last in office, the Public and Commercial Services union says the government must take urgent action to reverse the damage it is doing to our economy.

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.

«How does this budget address unemployment, the youth unemployment and you look at the resources this government has had over the last seven years, phenomenal amount.

If I ask people to rank ten issues (climate change, youth unemployment, terrorism, etc., etc.) people will rank climate change dead last.

This is at odds with him advocating hard line attitudes towards youth and the unemployed — such as the proposal last year to make under 25s wait up to 6 months to start receiving unemployment benefits.