{"id":102687,"date":"2014-01-02T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-public-health-toll-of-the-youth-unemployment-crisis\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:53:16","slug":"the-public-health-toll-of-the-youth-unemployment-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-public-health-toll-of-the-youth-unemployment-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Public Health Toll of the Youth Unemployment Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I was unemployed for nearly three years. Being out of work stripped away my self-worth and I became severely depressed -Afsana Benozir (Photo: Prince’s Trust)<\/span><\/span>The exploding youth unemployment crisis appears to be unleashing a public health one.<\/p>\n

Youth facing long-term unemployment are more than two times as likely as their peers to believe they have nothing to live for at a rate of 21 percent, finds a report (pdf)<\/a> released Thursday by the UK-based youth charity Prince’s Trust.<\/p>\n

In 2,161 interviews with UK-based young people aged 16 to 25 year’s old, the organization found that “40 per cent of jobless young people have faced these symptoms of mental illness \u2014 including suicidal thoughts, feelings of self-loathing and panic attacks \u2014 as a direct result of unemployment.”<\/p>\n

Nearly a third have “contemplated suicide,” and nearly a quarter have “self-harmed” the report finds\u2013rates higher than their peers.<\/p>\n

The following chart illustrates key findings of the study.<\/p>\n

\"\"(Image: Prince’s Trust)<\/span><\/span>“Being out of work knocked my confidence and made me feel like a failure,” said Steve Hardie in an interview with Prince’s Trust. “Things got so bad that I barely left the house. I was sitting at home all day thinking, which is a really bad idea when you’re depressed. I went into self-critical mode and even had suicidal thoughts.”<\/p>\n

\u201cUnemployment is proven to cause devastating, long-lasting mental health problems among young people,” said Martina Milburn, chief executive of The Prince’s Trust.<\/p>\n

“This research proves that unemployment is a public health issue,” said Shirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of the Royal Society for Public Health.<\/p>\n

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Source: Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I was unemployed for nearly three years. Being out of work stripped away my self-worth and I became severely depressed -Afsana Benozir (Photo: Prince’s Trust)The exploding youth unemployment crisis appears to be unleashing a public health one. Youth facing long-term unemployment are more than two times as likely as their peers to believe they have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":102688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}