Nearly 1 in 4 young people unemployed in Ireland
Figures have released by the European union show unemployment in the 28-nation trading bloc remains stubbornly in double-digits - a record high. One of the EU countries struggling with unemployment is Ireland. Nearly one out of every four young people there can’t find work.
After enduring five years of austerity budgets, Ireland added a lot of jobs in 2013, economists say unemployment still remains too high.
Young people are the hardest hit in Ireland. With nearly one out of every four Irish young people out of work, many have elected to migrate instead.
Others are using job and training centers like this one in the hope that it will help.
Ruchama is one of many young Irish people who can’t find a job. She’s been looking since she left school last June. She says companies keep rejecting her applications, because she lacks work experience.
In 2012, multinational companies invested heavily in Ireland creating around 7,000 net new jobs.
While Irish youth unemployment has fallen by more than four percent from the same month a year ago, it remains so stubbornly high at round 25 percent that Irish officials have expressed concern that migration by the country’s school leavers threatens the long-term recovery of Ireland’s economy.
While employment grew over 3 percent last year and unemployment still remains too high, at over 12 percent. Economists here say they expect little change in these figures in 2014, and stress that young people will again remain to be the one suffered.
