A Whole Generation Will Loose Out

An article by David Blanchflower in this weeks New Statesman, really hit home with the way this coalition Government is treating young people and in particularly those who are unemployed.
Unemployment at the best of times in unsavoury, but when you are so young, lack skills and knowledge of working, there is no where but down.
This is a subject that Gordon Brown and the previous Government took serious, providing additional  Area Based Grants to local authorities to provide employment experiences for young people.
I know from my own personal experience of interviewing people over many decades, having seen at first hand the confidence of someone who has had recent employment opposed to those who are unemployed and them feeling inadequate because they don't have a job.