Ahead of the pupil protest outside the SQA’s HQ today, it is worth thinking about the structural disadvantages facing young people from deprived communities in the broader context of this economic crisis. Economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty wrote yesterday about the enormous ‘Covid jobs crisis’ to come when the furlough scheme finishes at the end of October, with […]
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“News that 649,000 UK workers have fallen off payrolls between March and June, and that millions more lost hours, means the dispute over the meaning of, and solutions to, mass unemployment is once again in motion.”
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“When I think of those friends and peers who fought and fell in the last recession, I reflect upon the question that haunted my father – who got out, and who didn’t? When I think of the generation that follows mine, and what they will have to face, the idea of anyone ‘getting out’ appears perversely utopian.”