The Budget, which set out massive public sector cuts, included plans designed to alleviate child poverty, but mentioned nothing about helping to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training.
Despite this, one change that could help younger workers is the rise in the threshold at which employers start to pay National Insurance. This is expected to make it easier for employees to take on young people.
Osborne said: "The cost of hiring people on incomes lower than £20,000 will be less than it is today."
Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith will set out further measures designed to make it more profitable for people to work than to claim benefits in October. These come after £11bn cuts to the national welfare bill were announced in the Budget.
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