Unemployment affecting youth worldwide
Jul 10, 2012, 3:48 PM | Updated: Jul 12, 2012, 1:17 pm
The unemployment of young people today may create long-
lasting barriers in their future career paths, according to
moneycnn.com.
Last year 18.6 percent of individuals in the 15- to 24-year-
old age bracket weren’t employed or in school across the 34
countries studied by the think tank group called the
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development,
according to the article. The rate in the United States was
14.8 percent.
“It is imperative that governments use every possible means
at their disposal to help job-seekers, especially young
people, by removing barriers to job creation and investing
in their education and skills,” Angel Gurria, OECD’s
secretary-general, told CNN Money.
The OECD is hoping that internships and work-study programs
through employers will help the situation.
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