UK youth unemployment rises by 900%

According to the TUC’s report, which was published ahead of today’s latest unemployment figures, the number of 18 to 24-year-olds out of work for more than a year, has soared by 874 percent, from 6,260 to 60,955 since 2000, up by 264 percent in the last year alone.

“With a strong recovery failing to take hold, the bleak prospects facing young workers is going to be with us for some considerable time to come,” said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.

However, the British employment minister Chris Grayling put the blame on the previous Labour government, claiming it hid the true extent of the problem, saying, “Long-term youth unemployment is lower than May 2010.”

Meanwhile, during the opening session of the annual conference of the trade union Unison in Bournemouth on Tuesday, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis is expected to warn that new unemployment figures “will make depressing reading for many.”

“The government should be offering hope and a bright future for our young, not a place in the dole queue,” Prentis will add.

Britain is currently suffering from an unemployment rate of nearly 8.5 percent, with almost 2.7 million people jobless.

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