Greens would offer two-year jobs to unemployed under-24s
Co-deputy leader Mothin Ali tells the party's conference many young people are "bored, desperate and lost".
The Green Party has proposed a new policy aimed at providing two-year jobs to unemployed young people under the age of 24. Announced at the party's conference in Brighton, the initiative would see the government pay half of the employees' salaries, with job opportunities in the private sector. The policy aims to target areas with the fewest job openings for young people, initially focusing on regions like Rotherham, Ceredigion, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Broxtowe, and South Staffordshire.
The Greens argue that the policy would reduce welfare spending and boost tax receipts from employment, and that employers would be exempt from paying National Insurance contributions, while being required to provide in-job training. The proposal is seen as more ambitious than the government's existing six-month job placement scheme, which subsidizes positions for benefit claimants who have been unemployed for 18 months.
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