Youth unemployment 'through roof'

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Liam Byrne
Liam Byrne

Youth unemployment has "gone through the roof", with a huge increase in the number of long-term jobless since the coalition came to power, Labour has said.

The Opposition said the number of 18 to 24-year-olds out of work for over a year had jumped from 25,800 in April 2010 to over 73,500 now.
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