How Labour could solve the youth jobs crisis | Letters

Readers respond to an editorial on creating opportunities for today’s young people to build future careers Your youth unemployment editorial ( 18 September ) sees the crisis clearly, but reaches for the wrong tools. Placements, apprenticeships and work coaches cannot conjure jobs that do not exist. We need macro solutions to macro problems. Youth unemployment is not a crisis of skills or geography. It is insufficient government deficit spending. There is not enough money circulating to employ everyone who wants to work and that is a policy choice, not an accident. Macroeconomists divide the economy into three sectors: government, households and businesses, and the rest of the world. One sect

What is happening The Guardian reports: Readers respond to an editorial on creating opportunities for today’s young people to build future careers Your youth unemployment editorial ( 18 September ) sees the crisis clearly, but reaches for the wrong tools. Placements, apprenticeships and work coaches cannot conjure jobs that do not exist. We need macro solutions to macro problems. Youth unemployment is not a crisis of skills or geography. It is insufficient government deficit spending. There is not enough money circulating to employ everyone who wants to work and that is a policy choice, not an accident. Macroeconomists divide the economy into three sectors: government, households and businesses, and the rest of the world. One sect The problem The public problem in this report is the one named by the source: “How Labour could solve the youth jobs crisis | Letters”. A response on MLAIEL should not add a cause, a number, or a remedy the source does not state. Open the source for the detail. What a team can do on MLAIEL A team can read what the source says about jobs, a workplace, or people losing work, then open a project for people who can respond. This desk is not the economy desk and it does not give financial advice. Source The Guardian — How Labour could solve the youth jobs crisis | Letters https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/24/how-labour-could-solve-the-youth-jobs-crisis