Given the numbers were steady across all other age groups, this is grim enough, but estimates from The Resolution Foundation point to the pandemic leaving more than 10 times this number out of work. This is on top of the 800,000 people aged 16-24 who were not in education, employment or training before Covid-19 struck.
Although young people have been least susceptible to the virus itself, they will arguably be most impacted by its economic consequences on account of the fact that the under-25s were two and half times more likely than others to have been working in the parts of the economy that shut-down in March. Add to this the fact that many large companies have suspended their graduate intake programmes and the outlook is bleak for many.
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