- Just chucking young ones on the scrap heap. That early loss of income has flow on effects throughout their lifetimes. More entrenched poverty as this is also generational #nzpol
- Youth unemployment rate is now over 16% (1 in 6). The underutilisation rate - young people wanting work or more work - is 38% ffs - 190,000 young kiwis. That's nearly half of the total. It took a fking decade for youth unemployment to recover last time. Same plan this time. No plan.
