No passado dia 13 de Julho o jornal The Times publicou um artigo intitulado "Don't force all 16-year-olds to stay at school, get the state to pay their wages, says key adviser".
O artigo aborda uma proposta de Paul Gregg, conselheiro do governo britânico em políticas de mercado de trabalho, para enfrentar o aumento da inactividade económica entre os jovens no Reino Unido. Gregg defende que os jovens entre os 16 e os 17 anos que abandonam a escola sem qualificações adequadas deveriam ser integrados em programas de trabalho com remuneração simbólica paga pelo Estado. Esta medida visa combater o risco crescente de marginalização laboral e social de uma geração inteira, cuja ligação ao mundo do trabalho está a enfraquecer.
"The welfare bill is on track to hit £100 billion by 2030. At the peak last year, 9.3 million people were neither in work nor looking for a job - a rise of 713,000 since Covid.
This included 872,000 16 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training, known as Neets.
Gregg said the rising number of young people leaving education and going straight onto benefits was a "ticking time bomb".
His solution is to give them a job with their wages paid by the state. "For this kind of group, 16, or 17, I believe that we need to be saying that if you're offering a job with training that the state will meet the wage costs," he said, stressing he was speaking in a personal capacity.
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with more than 1,000 people a day signing up for personal independence payments (PIPs), even the most ardent critic of the policy understands that doing nothing is not an option given the precarious state of the country's finances. New figures by the Centre for Social Justice think tank found that people on sickness benefits will soon receive £2,500 more a year than a minimum wage worker."
BTW, relacionar com o título no JN do passado dia 15 de Julho, "Todos os meses há mais mil pobres com deficiência a pedir ajuda ao Estado."
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