Laura Flanders: Cuts Leave Young People With No Future to Win

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Cuts Leave Young People With No Future to Win


Paul Mason of the BBC called them “the graduates with no future.” They’ve been at the center of protest movements around the world, from Tunisia to Wisconsin.

GRITtv contributor Gary Younge reported on Spain’s unemployment for the Guardian recently —64 percent of youth under 19 are out of work, and the total youth unemployment rate is 43 percent—higher than Egypt and Tunisia, both. Don Tapscott noted in the same paper that in the UK, 40 percent of the unemployed are aged 16 to 24, and here in the US, 21 percent of young people are unemployed.

Watch: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/559635/cuts_leave_young_people_with_no_future_to_win/

For years people have bemoaned Europe’s lost generations; the dead-end, lay-about Europeans with no place to go. But given US hiring patterns–all abroad, not at home–the US is looking to the very same thing.

And what’s in store in the budget? More cuts to PELL program grants for the students who are already struggling. Other countries’ kids can get scholarships from their countries to study here. They go home with all that dandy intellectual capital and make things. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/559635/cuts_leave_young_people_with_no_future_to_win/