Britain's Bedroom Generation Locked Out of the Job Market
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UK youth unemployment is at crisis levels, with about one million young people classified as NEETs. Stories like 25-year-old Dave and 20-year-old Lily-Rose reveal endless job applications, automated rejections from AI screening, and employers demanding prior experience even for entry roles. The Milburn report calls this a moral crisis and warns of long-term mental-health and wage setbacks, while a forthcoming update urges more effective government training schemes and evidence of their success to help young jobseekers re-enter the workforce.
- ‘We’ve been left to rot’: Inside Britain’s new Bedroom Generation Dazed
- Record number of young people fear long-term unemployment The Guardian
- Poundland founder on the rise in the number of young people out of work BBC
- Record number of young people expect to be unemployed The Telegraph
- Young losing faith in future turn to ‘financial nihilism’ School Management Plus
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