Young people want to work: now there may be jobs for them | Polly Toynbee

I spent a week at a London jobcentre. Those I met were smart and eager to work – and now they have a government willing to help them Labour did it before. Can it do it again, with things being so much harder now? New Labour’s new deal for the young unemployed levered large numbers of people into work, but in 1998 the economy was on the upswing. Now, economic stagnation has resulted in falling vacancies and rising unemployment. And Donald Trump’s war threatens much worse in the future. Today t...

By Polly Toynbee