Posts Tagged ‘ youth unemployment ’

Youth Unemployment – A Ticking Time Bomb?

Mar 14th, 2016 | By
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By Suzanne York. If you are a parent or a teacher, you might be excused for occasionally thinking that there are too many young people. But it’s true that there are a lot of young men and women living right now, as noted in a recent op-ed in the New York Times by Somini Sengupta,
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Cooperatives Offer Solutions for Youth Unemployment

Apr 29th, 2015 | By
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By Kimberly Absher, guest youth blogger, www.howmany.org. A recent Guardian article said youth unemployment “is an issue set to destabilise fragile economies, become a breeding ground for extremism, and leave a generation permanently scarred.” Indeed, it is cause for concern when not only considering today’s out-of-work young people, but also the workforce of tomorrow. According to
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