Worrying intergenerational divides were already apparent in Italy following the recent double-dip financial crises, and these can only have been exacerbated by COVID-19. Analysis by Luciano Monti, Adjunct Professor of European Union Policies at LUISS Guido Carli (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) in Rome, and Scientific co-director of the Bruno Visentini Foundation, a research… Read more »
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The share of young people who are NEET continues to fall – but is that necessarily good news?
David Kingman ponders some important questions about whether the UK’s “jobs miracle” is necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be, especially in light of the supposedly lower number of young adults who are NEETs
Time to do something about Internships (paid and unpaid)
Phil Radcliff, ex-global Human Resources Director and IF volunteer, points to the iniquities of internships and calls for greater clarification and collaboration between young people, their educational institutions and the world of work
Recent research paints a grim picture of child poverty in the UK
David Kingman looks at several recent pieces of research which suggest that the UK is sliding backwards on children’s and young people’s living standards