WARRINGTON North MP Helen Jones has demanded that the Government do more to tackle youth unemployment after the latest figures showed the number of young people in long term unemployment in Warrington had risen by 230 
per cent since January.
The latest figures showed that the number of people aged between 18-24 years old claiming Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) for more than six months in Warrington had increased from 115 in January to 380 in October.
Ms Jones said: “The latest figures are the clearest proof yet that the Government doesn’t have a plan to get the economy growing and to get people back to work. A 230 per cent rise in long term youth unemployment is an absolute travesty and requires urgent action.
“The Government needs a change of direction. What we now need is a new plan. Labour’s five point plan for jobs and growth would create 100,000 jobs for young people by taxing bank bonuses. Getting people, particularly the young, back to work is quite simply the safest, surest way to get the deficit down.
“Studies have shown that extended periods of unemployment are incredibly damaging for young people and can affect their future. Young people in Warrington didn’t cause the financial crisis but it looks like this Government is making them pay for it.”
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I don’t recall hearing of these plans when Labour were ruining the country, but now they don’t have to find the money (I forget, they never did.) the solutions are easy.
Perhaps the woman forgets the open door policy that encouraged people,legal or otherwise, to come to this country and take jobs that are own should have. AND the declining standards of education under the same crowd, helps to make people unemployable when they can neither read nor write.
I often think that when politicians call for more jobs and economic growth etc, why don’t they abandon the talking shop that is politics for a year or so, and actually set up a business that creates that employment and economic growth that they talk about. Guess the answer might be that they aren’t actually capable of doing it.
“Studies have shown that extended periods of unemployment are incredibly damaging for young people and can affect their future”. I’ll bet they will also show they are incredibly damaging to forty and fifty year old people who have been put out to grass after working since they left school, who still have families to support. That’s not to play down the corrosive effect of unemployment and lack of work opportunities on young people. But our politicians of all parties need to face facts. Both lots have successively denuded our manufacturing sector, yet they continue to award contracts to foreign companies rather than British ones. Bombardier in Derby was a typical example – instead of keeping some train production in the UK we’ve handed the contract to a German company.