Firms need to get onside if Labour’s youth employment push is to have a chance of working | Richard Partington

Alan Milburn’s report will call for benefit cuts but lack of entry-level job opportunities is also driving crisis ‘I’m scared about my future’: young people on the stress and desperation of jobseeking A generation is being sold short. Almost a million young people are not in education, employment or training (Neet). Austerity and the Covid pandemic cast a lengthy shadow, AI is upending the jobs market, and the cost of living is soaring – all under the microscope of the social media age. This week Alan Milburn’s landmark report on young people and work will bring Britain to a fork in the…