A LACK of well-paid jobs and affordable homes is throwing young people into poverty, a damning report published today finds.

Young people aged 16 to 24 are four times more likely to be unemployed than the working-age population as a whole, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation study found.

And 400,000 more young people are living in poverty than a decade ago, according to the foundation’s annual state-of-the-nation report.