75 million young people, one common issue:...

75 million young people, one common issue:...

The International Labour Organisation has declared it a “time bomb”, the Davos leaders refer to it as a “disaster”, and the United Nations has called it “staggering”. These three concerning phrases, uttered by major global institutions, all seek to describe the same economic challenge: youth unemployment. Despite young people making up 17% of the world’s population, they account for more than 40% of the world’s unemployed; a sum total of more than 75 million young people. Let’s stop and conceptualise that for a second- that equates to a whopping 75 million young people. That’s three a bit times my country’s (Australia’s) entire population or enough young...Read More

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