Western Mail Comment: We Can't Afford to Waste Young People's Potential
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IT'S a curious and underreported feature of the New Labour years that the huge investment in the New Deal programme for the unemployed has still left Britain with a hardcore of youngsters who are contributing nothing to the economy.
The numbers who are not in education, employment or training (Neets is the jargon) is stubbornly high, with a total of 34,000 in Wales alone. Their existence is a reminder that a "no-one works" culture still exists in too many communities - and is being passed down the generations - and present policies are not working.See the full content of this document
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Western Mail Comment: We Can't Afford to Waste Young People's Potential
The official statistics are enough to give a depressing vision of the future for these teenagers. Neets are 20...
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