{"id":1137,"date":"2011-01-28T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2015-03-03T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:54:17","slug":"youth-unemployment-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Youth unemployment rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">January 28th, 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RISE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has challenged the Scottish Government to tackle youth unemployment after it emerged that more than a quarter of people unemployed are aged between 18-24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr McNeil believes the Scottish Government must makes jobs a priority as he pulls together his budget for the coming year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MSP points to the successful Future Jobs Fund and the creation of more apprenticeship places as ways of tackling youth unemployment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest figures released by the GMB trade union, there are 530 18-24 year olds unemployed, which is nearly 27 per cent of the total unemployment claimant count.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr McNeil said: \u201cDuring the Thatcher years, a generation of young people were thrown on the scrapheap and we cannot allow this SNP Government to make the same mistake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cInverclyde needs a budget for jobs and John Swinney needs to make tackling youth unemployment as a priority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe had Scotland\u2019s best performing Future Jobs Fund in Inverclyde before the Tory Government withdrew funding and the Scottish Government needs to match Labour\u2019s pledge to re-instate it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd every young person who wants should be guaranteed an apprenticeship \u2013 we have a responsibility to create opportunities for young people in these difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 28th, 2011 YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RISE Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has challenged the Scottish Government to tackle youth unemployment after it emerged that more than a quarter of people unemployed are aged between 18-24. Mr McNeil believes the Scottish Government must makes jobs a priority as he pulls together his budget for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}