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Why it's so hard to be young in Britain right now

Written by Kausik Chaudhuri, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds

If you’re taking the first steps in your career right now, you’re doing so in the face of a high cost of living and an increasingly inaccessible housing market. You may well be facing the reality that you will be worse off than your parents’ generation.

The UK’s youth (15-24) unemployment rate...

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