Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom

[5] The high levels of youth unemployment in the United Kingdom have led some politicians and media commentators to talk of a "lost generation".

[10] Statistics from the Institute for Public Policy Research show that youth unemployment is highest among black people.

[14] Widely cited causes of youth unemployment in the United Kingdom include these: Some alternative theories exist as well, for example Tim Worstall of the free-market Adam Smith Institute has argued that the introduction of minimum wage legislation in the United Kingdom has contributed to youth unemployment by increasing the wage bill for firms,.

[30][31] The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government have abolished the Labour Party's Future Jobs Fund and replaced it with an apprenticeship scheme.

[32] The Recruitment and Employment Confederation have proposed an overhaul of school's career guidance and a drive to increase apprenticeships.

[21] Dominic Raab called for the National Minimum Wage to be scrapped for 16- to 21-year-olds in order to boost youth employment,[33] though doubts were raised as to whether or not this is an effective measure.

[34] The Labour Party have called for a tax on bankers' bonuses in order to help fund a job scheme for the young unemployed.

Lottie Dexter of the campaign group Million Jobs has compared the scheme to "fighting a forest fire with a water pistol".