This country has an unemployment crisis and the position for young unemployed people is particularly bleak. Yet today’s Budget did next to nothing to address this problem. I have a post over at Left Foot Forward, looking at what little there is and contrasting it with last government’s programmes, which the coalition scrapped almost immediately after the election.
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