Very little coverage in the election campaign has focused on youth unemployment.
- The numbers of young people not in employment or training is at an all time high.
- What message does this give to a future generation?
- Is it you don’t matter?
- Or is it we’ll work on the economy and while we do this you just sit and rot. Again, there have been articles covering this. Here’s two which say a lot.
There have been articles covering this. Here’s two which say a lot.
- ‘Boarding card but no plane’: Former head boy’s 18-month job search as youth unemployment at ‘crisis levels’ | Stuff
- Bootcamps….https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/622116/psychologist-quits-oranga-tamariki-bootcamp-after-two-months.
To put the situation into context there are currently 9000 young people under 25 not in work or training just in Christchurch.
I have met with the Mayor on a couple of occasions to encourage him to revive the Mayors Taskforce for Jobs to do his bit towards this blight on our city. To date I have been unsuccessful.
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