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Archive: Youth Unemployment
Question-mark remains over falling jobless count
Unemployment is declining, according to the ONS, but the economy has not fully recovered.
Jobless count up again
Glimmer of light: Unemployment falls slightly
Nick Clegg speech on youth unemployment in full
Fall in unemployment will be 'short lived'
The boost to today's employment figures is distorted by the Olympics and jobseekers forced into part-time work, according to critics.
'Not that bleak': Minister upbeat after unemployment drops 0.2%
The number of those out of work has dropped again, prompting an upbeat assessment of Britain's economic prospects from the coalition.
Young people in the countryside suffer brunt of recession
Today's employment market looks grim to everyone, but rural youth face a particularly bleak reality, a report today concluded.
Clegg is 'plaster solution to national crisis'
Labour blasted Nick Clegg's proposed solution to youth unemployment this morning, calling it a "plaster solution for a national crisis".
Nick Clegg speech on youth unemployment in full
Read Nick Clegg's youth unemployment speech in full.
Glimmer of light: Unemployment falls slightly
Unemployment fell marginally in the first three months of the year, figures out today have shown, in a boost to the coalition.
Labour to 'conquer' youth unemployment
A Labour government in power now would banish long-term unemployment among the young, Ed Miliband has promised.
Family champion forced to resign
The government adviser hired to get 120,000 'problem families' back to work resigned yesterday amid allegations of fraud at her firm.
Grayling: Placements turn into jobs
Chris Grayling, minister for employment, defends the government's embattled workfare scheme
CIPD: Work experience needed for right attitude and work ethic
Katerina Rüdiger, skills policy adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, comments on the government's embattled workfare scheme:
Poundland: We are suspending workfare participation
Jim McCarthy, chief executive officer of Poundland, comments on his firm's decision to withdraw from the government's workfare scheme:
Yvette Cooper: Women forced back into the kitchen
Labour’s shadow minister for women and equalities said in response to yesterday's labour market statistics:
UCU: Saddling students with debt will push unemployment even higher
The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday that cuts to the number of places at university and plans to saddle people who wish to return to college with huge debts had to be rethought as unemployment reached a 16-year high.
IPPR: Women suffering most of all
Graeme Cooke, IPPR associate director, said in response to the unemployment figures:
Give the young jobs, Clegg begs businesses
Nick Clegg is appealing to Britain's businesses to take on more young people as the coalition continues to face a bleak economic outlook.
Clegg hints rich will take the pain
The rich could be forced to contribute more as Britain continues to cut down the deficit, Nick Clegg has suggested.
PMQs sketch: Another Miliband own goal
He appeared stunned, like a goalkeeper who's just let one in between the legs.
Miliband issues 'hard-headed' attack on 'irresponsible capitalism'
Ed Miliband sought to turn Britain's economic woes to his advantage today with a speech billed as a 'hard-headed' attack on 'irresponsible capitalism'.
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