Il Regno Unito vanta il terzo tasso più alto tra i ricchi europei di giovani adulti che non lavorano né studiano
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/28/uk-has-wealthy-europes-third-highest-rate-of-18-to-24-year-olds-not-in-work-or-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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One time I was told I wasn’t the right fit for a job because I had a creative hobby (drawing) lmfao. A few weeks later cuz I had the company on LinkedIn, turns out they were committing mass fraud and bragging about how they were a ‘unicorn’ profit company.
I now have a job but it is BRUTAL out there.
We should have a system like in the US where you have to prove a British person can’t do the job you’re advertising before you hire a migrant.
Alternative headline – UK has third-least amount of jobs available or useful learning opportunities for young people. Its economy is a failure.
This is such a strange metric, how are they defining who counts as ‘wealthy Europe’ here?
the jobs has been so degraded by politicians using every trick possible to push down wages including mass importing ppl from the most desperate places on earth who will work any job for the possibility to stay in UK so these jobs are not worth it for natives
Why would you employ a young British kid when you have a hundred desperate immigrants applying for every job who’ll do everything you ask, legal or not and have no life outside work?
Uni burdens them with a lifetime of debt which they won’t be able to pay off as there aren’t enough well paid opportunities for them. If they do manage to overcome those two hurdles, good luck affording a home! What a country….
Remember, we are often marking ourselves against France and Germany despite lagging behind them. France we are closest to but we work more hours to achieve the same outcome that France does.
Our real pears are Spain, Italy and Poland.
At least our sales of North Face Gear, balaclavas and illegally derestricted ebikes and scooters is the best in Europe though.
I mean, it also has the 2nd highest population in Europe as well.
Correlation does not equal causation.
You would expect the most populous countries to be at the top of a table like this.
I’m not one of these people that thinks there are simple solutions to any of these economic issues. But one idea I’ve heard floated for a while now is that you give everyone under a certain age a tax-free earning threshold – so, for example, the first £75k you earn in your life is completely tax free – meaning that it’s easier for younger people to get some sort of economic footing. Now, it won’t solve everything and I have no idea how much this would cost us in terms of lost tax revenue, but as a policy proposal I can see the merits.
Probably because OAPs are returning to the workforce in their droves due to the cost of living.
The article says that 18-24 year olds aren’t given enough support to get into work.
Unfortunately the reality is that there is actually just a lot less jobs to go around. 18-24 year olds are screwed because the pandemic meant people couldn’t find jobs and overqualified people started taking jobs meant for 18-24 year olds. That’s why you see people with first class degrees struggling to find work.
Then we have AI taking entry level jobs. Why hire a cashier when you can install 3 self checkouts for a fraction of the cost?
I also feel like the job centre is pretty pointless. The staff there are clearly under pressure and they are not able to give you tailored support and advice as to how to get into work.
I’m 27 & I’ve been unemployed since October. I’ve tried absolutely everything to get a job. I’ve been to job agencies. I’ve walked around town personally handing in my CV. I’ve had probably 10 different people peer review my CV. I’ve been on every jobsite you can name applying for every job I even come close to the requirements for, providing cover letters that I spend hours working on. I’ve given it 110% in every interview I’ve attended. I simply cannot get a job & I’m at my wit’s end.
I live in a house of 5 lads who are all in our mid-late 20’s, all of us are healthy & very willing to work. 4 of us are unemployed because we just cannot get a job. The one who has a job does unsociable hours for minimum wage.
When I broke down in tears to my father, who got a job the first day he tried by waking into a building & asking for a job in 1981, he couldn’t fathom how it’s so difficult & was adamant that it’s just because we’re “lazy”.
The social contract is broken. The jobs available to people are minimum wage jobs on which you can no longer afford rent and living expenses never mind being able to enjoy your life. I don’t blame people for checking out of that. I thank god I’m not young now because it’s bleak.
There are no entry level jobs or expectation of a career anymore. You can train for years in a profession just to be rugpulled at the last second, and then you’re stuck applying to the same 50 minimum wages jobs as every other unemployed 20-something in the area.
Its a disaster, 800k new graduates added every single year to the grad pool, the UK has failed coming on 2 generations now
Inevitable outcome of forcing UK graduates to compete with the entire world for jobs and housing.
Let’s bring millions more people into the country. That will sort it!
I’m 28 with a PhD, got laid off after 1.5 years when my lab shut down. I managed to get a part time minimum wage job, but full time work has been impossible, I’ve been out of work for over a year now.
I’ve had my CV peer reviewed, I tailor the application each time and I’ve worked with recruiters. I’ve had some interviews but it goes nowhere, I get told I don’t have enough skills/experience or someone else had more relevant skills and experience.
I’ve been applying to jobs in my field and jobs in general but it’s just all the same, not enough positions too many candidates so they pick whoever they want to do it. I’m just not sure what to do I had some feedback tell me ‘your application and interview were great, we just decided to go with a different candidate’ which doesn’t help me improve…
Funny how making higher education prohibitively expensive leads to fewer kids going to university or any form of education after 18. And then they’re left with massive debt, but no decent wages at the end of it—despite needing a degree in the first place. The whole system needs rethinking from top to bottom, because what we’re doing now clearly isn’t working.
The job market and education system are clearly failing these young people, but blaming migrants is a classic distraction from the real issue of stagnant wages and a hollowed-out economy.
The issue is it costs to train people and businesses are just better off hiring experienced people. You can spend resources training a new person, but unless they stay on for a while long enough for the cost of training to pay off you will be net negative compared to hiring someone experienced. But most will leave once they get experience, so you spend your resources but do not have time to get enough profit to even cover the cost to train.
I don’t believe companies should be allowed to lock people into employment for an extended period of time so next best thing is tax incentives to counteract the cost to train. Lower employers NI for British people who haven’t been in employment long. 8% for example for employees with less than £100k lifetime earnings. 14% for above (with marginal increases). That would make training young workers a potentially profitable endeavour.
The destruction of our hospitality secor has lost thousands of jobs thst young people used to take
You will own nothing and be happy about it.
C’mon guys, let’s be happy about how batshit poor we all are. It’s the best time to be alive!
Walling off our economy with Brexit doesn’t work. We have an internally stagnant gerontocratic system that nails young people to the floor. We need more churn. The cost of NEETs pales next to the cost of keeping xenophobic pensioners happy and healthy in their villages.
Migrants from the EU took jobs and housing, yes, but they also spent plenty of money here and were less likely to claim benefits, bring dependents, or retire here.