Save EMA » Youth Unemployment

TEENAGERS NEED EMA NOT JSA TO GET INTO THE WORKPLACE

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Save EMA campaign in responding to the government’s new plans to allow firms and charities to bid for a payment-by-results scheme to try to get “Neet” teenagers into work or training, has pointed out that this money is similar to the amount that should have been spent on EMA. The government’s plan on 16 [...]

ED BALLS: IT’S A “TRAGIC TIME” FOR YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT TO SCRAP EMA

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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On the day that youth unemployment figures have risen to a record high, prompting renewed concern that young people are bearing the brunt for the economic downturn. Ed Balls MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer has spoken exclusively to Save EMA to criticise the government’s lacklustre approach to youth unemployment by scrapping successful schemes such [...]