Youth job prospects worsening: UN
Scary!
#jobsA wounded global economy tramples over young peoples’ careers, the United Nations says.
A new report by the United Nations labour agency warns of a youth jobs crisis in both developed and developing countries, with young people aged 15 to 24 finding it increasingly difficult to obtain decent employment and future prospects are dim.
As it released its “Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 Update,” the International Labour Organization (ILO) notes that the recent global economic crisis led to a “substantial” increase in youth unemployment rates, reversing earlier favourable trends over the past decade.These new statistics reflect the frustration and anger that millions of youth around the world are feeling.
At the peak of the crisis period in 2009, the global youth unemployment rate saw its largest annual increase on record, rising from 11.8 per cent to 12.7 per cent between 2008 and 2009 – an unprecedented increase of 4.5 million unemployed youth worldwide.-U
United Nations: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40100&Cr=unemployment&Cr1=