Branding young unemployed people as feckless welfare scroungers is both inaccurate and counterproductive, says ERNIE JACQUES. This simplistic perspective reframes a complex macroeconomic challenge as an individual failing. ‘Tackling the NEETs crisis will require long-term, specific and systemic change.’...
The living wage and the future for young people will be the focus of an ILP seminar on Unbalanced Britain in Sheffield next month. The crash of 2008 and its aftermath revealed the self-destructive and self-serving character of neoliberal capitalism. The high and mighty bankers and financiers, and their allies, stood exposed for unleashing an...