The six-point plan, drawn up by 10 young apprentices with support from youth agency Livity, calls on the government to create more apprenticeships and jobs for young people and to spend more on youth clubs.
The 17- to 25-year-olds also want the government to create youth advice centres to replace closed Connexions services and focus more on young people's health.
Tessa Jowell MP has now taken up the baton and promised to raise the points made in the young people's manifesto in Parliament tomorrow after George Osborne's Budget speech.
"Young people have been some of the worst affected by the recent recession and we cannot ignore their voice," she said.
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