31.5% (659,000) unemployed or underemployed young Australian’s nationally, writes Helen Connolly is SA Commissioner for Children and Young People in InDaily.
Clearly, something different needs to be done unless we want long term underutilisation to become the norm for our youth.
One step is to help them learn the skills of the future through educational options and a second is to guarantee them jobs and not rely on industry alone.
Brotherhood of St Laurence 2017 Report – Generation Stalled – Young, Underemployed and Living Precariously in Australia shows the worrying dual threat of unemployment and underemployment. Covid-19 would only have made this much, much worse.
The ABS 2017 source data for the report can be found here:
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