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If Burnham wants firms to hire young people, he needs to get out of their way
Wednesday 08 July 2026 5:45 am | Updated: Tuesday 07 July 2026 11:10 am
If Burnham wants firms to hire young people, he needs to get out of their way
By: Mani Basharzad
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Firms don’t need subsidies to incentivise them to hire NEETs, we just need to make sure that work pays, says Mani Basharzad
Andy Burnham’s honeymoon seems to be getting shorter by the day. Even before reaching Nunber 10, he is refusing to hold a proper press conference. But when he enters office, he will face an economy whose wages have stagnated since 2008, whose public debt is approaching the size of its GDP, and which has more than one million people not in education, employment or training (NEETs), costing the government £125bn.
Post-financial crisis stagnation has been a common trend across Europe, but when it comes to the number of NEETs, the UK is performing particularly badly. Comparing the........
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