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Unions call for more to be done to tackle youth unemployment
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THE TUC has called for urgent action to tackle rising youth unemployment after the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) latest labour force survey was published.

Youth unemployment has hit 12.8 per cent, up 0.8 percentage points on the quarter, the stats show.

The number of young people in long-term unemployment rose by 30,600 over the past year.

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