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The cost of living is rising for young people. Yet the minimum wage was frozen for workers under 21. Young members of trade union Unison’s northern region argue this is unfair. They have launched an e-petition to get the topic of raising the rate for young workers debated in parliament. The minimum wage is currently [...] What was unemployment like when you were a teenager? Or when someone advising you was your age? Here’s an at-a-glance graph of the past twenty years. Youth unemployment since 1992, provided by House of Commons library What is immediately noticeable is what a tough time today’s 16 and 17 year olds have. Those who [...] The national minimum wage is be raised in October by 11p an hour. Not for most young people, though. The rates for 16-17 olds and for 18-20 year olds have been frozen. The apprenticeship rate is to go up 5p an hour. From 1 October 2012 the rates will be: £6.19 an hour – [...] The jobs guarantee for young people proposed by opposition leader Ed Miliband will not make much difference to most jobless young people, says influential analyst Jonathan Portes. The proposal guarantees a job of 25 hours a week at the minimum wage to young people aged 18-24 who have been claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance for more than [...] Today’s revelations of low numeracy levels among adults are no surprise to those working with young people. Many report that financial education materials and ideas are pitched at a level far too high for most young people, especially those who are not in education, employment or training. What does the reminder that 17 million adults [...] Ed Balls Photo: Jarvin The e-petition for compulsory financial education never did make much sense. It is not getting any better after promoter Martin Lewis claimed his latest champion. Lewis, founder of bargain-hunters’ website moneysaving expert, says 200 MPs have signed the petition. That’s getting on for a third of all MPs in the [...] Falling, rising or staying the same….interpretation of the latest workless households figures seems to offer all possibilities. One thing is clear. There has been a tiny rise in the percentage of children in workless households. For the three months to June 2011, the percentage of children living in households where none of the adults has [...] Travelling abroad on a gap year without insurance could be a very expensive mistake. Getting the wrong insurance could be costly too. So says research company Defaqto, which has analysed some of the variations in gap year travel insurance policies. Having looked at 111 policies on the market, it reports that: where a trip has [...] Here’s a happy story. Read it and be uplifted. Then read what follows. Such happy stories could become history, if proposed changes to legal aid entitlement become law. Terry, aged 17, got his first job as a trainee mechanic in a garage in London. He was keen to work and cheerfully worked overtime. Terry worked [...] |
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