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=The lost generation= = **__Measures to combat youth unemployment in Britain__** = = The two previous pages were about the possible explanations for the high unemployment among young people in Britain and its consequences. However, this page concerns the measures to combat the youth unemployment, which is a very important theme. Every government must work hard to keep unemployment as low as possible. What kind of political measures can they accomplish? =

The former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said in January 2009 that the government would do everything in its power to help those losing their jobs to find work again quickly, or to get a new skill. More precisely he said:

//“We cannot always prevent people losing the last job, but we can help people get the next job. Because we are determined to prevent short-term unemployment leading to long-term unemployment with all its consequences and because we know that the risk of long-term unemployment increases as skills and confidence depreciates, we are setting out a new guarantee of intensive support for anyone still unemployed after six months.”// (1)

It is of high importance to create new jobs for the unemployed youths. It can also help to reduce the high unemployment rate in Britain. The government can for example build new schools and child-care institutions, which creates new work places. It is also important that teachers help pupils to not drop out of school as youngsters. In this way, more people may get educated, which also contributes to reducing the unemployment rate.

Another great measure is to announce “golden hellos”. In 2009, Gordon Brown and his government announced “golden hellos” worth up to £2,500 to get jobless people back to work. The money was given to employers to recruit and train the long-term unemployed people. About 75.000 training places were set up for people who had been unemployed for over 6 months. It was also given cash help for jobless people to set up own businesses. (2)

These are some measures that can be made to reduce the youth unemployment in Britain. The government has until now spent a lot of money to help the jobless people, but I believe they can do even more to achieve even greater results. However, measures may be restricted by money and priorities. The government may have other cases or problems that are more important and thus must be prioritized. An example of this is Britain's participation in war in countries such as Afghanistan and Libya, which is really expensive.



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 * __Sources:__**
 * (1) [] - © The Times Newspapers Ltd and MBA Publishing Ltd 1995-2011, 04.04.11
 * (2) [] - © Times Newspapers Ltd 2010, 04.04.11
 * (3) [] - Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, 04.04.11
 * (4) [] - Tim Miller: from ([]), 04.04.11
 * (5) [] - Tutor2u, 04.04.11
 * (6) [] - Knut Halvorsen, Centre for Social Research and Documentation, Oslo University College, 04.04.11