The Independent emphasizes on-the-ground reporting and separating facts from messaging across issues including reproductive rights, climate change, and Big Tech. It highlights support for journalists and access to reporting without paywalls. In Britain, Alan Milburn, appointed to chair the Young People and Work Report, warns of economic catastrophe from youth unemployment. Hundreds of thousands of 16-24-year-olds are not in education, employment, or training. An interim report to be published next week is expected to identify rising mental ill-health, anxiety, depression, and neurodiversity as key drivers of economic inactivity. Milburn links these issues to growing up in a digital age and says the system traps people in worklessness rather than enabling entry into work.
"729,000 16-24 year olds were not employed between January and March this year (PA Wire) The research also described a bedroom generation with many of those who had left school at 16 having spent months or even year"
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