We have received, and read with interest, two reports from major charities in the past month. The first was the Macquarie Youth Index for the Prince's Trust, which contained some concerning figures about the relentless, heartbreaking nature of a life lived with little or no hope, no matter what a young person may have tried to do to make their way. These are the faces behind the anonymous figures of a million without work and the dignity it provides. These are the young people who feel invisible, many of who left school or college with poor results and live on society's margins. This is a rights issue: society owes its next generation of adults and taxpayers more than an end to childhood spent in such darkness.
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