| The comming election is going to be all about... |
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| Contributed by Livgivare Sweden | ||
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...yes you've guessed it. Youth unemployment and the situation of the young people of Sweden. When you have a country of approximately 9 million citizens and about 140 000 of the young people between 19 and 29 are either unemployed or have a long term sick leave. You've got a real big problem to solve. As I've written before in an article over here. The trouble seems to come from the elderly (born in 1940 to 1950) people having grown up to a world that gave them rules making it more easy for them. But they also leave a world with rules that makes it not so easy. In 1990 Sweden was hit by a big economic crises. Mainly because we were left behind a bit. You all know how it was under Margaret Thatcher, don't you? Well this seemed to come to us in the 1990ies instead. (You know if you read about the Bretton/Wodds system you can easily see that it fell apart in the 1980ies to 1990ies around the world. At the same time of the wall disappearing in Berlin). So after this crisis the government had tried to fix up the huge unemployment of all generations and it went good. Almost too good for almost all people over a certain age. Those with experience of jobs and/or good education from earlier. The government even made it more easy to upgrade your education for grown up people to solve unemployment. But with this good elderly workforce and with their minds on the feeling on being able to loose a job again. It seemed hard for young yet very new to the workforce to get jobs. Now with 140 000 people (almost the same amount of babies born into one year) the youth of today are called "The wasted generation". One third of those people are having long term sick leave due to the psychological pressure the society leaves them into. Today I even read an headline saying that students on Universities with only the government students grants are officially poor. Many people studying have to get an extra job when your studies shall be of full time. Only because of your rent of apartment (silly small in most cases) are taking up almost half your income. People of my age (I am 24) are also living on social service money and have to beg parents for money to have enough to eat on the table each day. Many elderly people are telling us that we are lazy, don't want jobs, just don't get the system or something like that. But if you write 1000 job applies a month and still don't get a job you loose the grip on the world. People with education are told to have too much education, people without are told to have too little. No experience or network makes it a lot harder. Some politicians are even considering the same medicine as French young people are so raving mad about on the streets today. I am not 100 % sure on what the 100% right medicine shall be. But give us a try, let us show what we can go for. But please don't make poverty, depression, social service, income and such things be permanent. It is going to kill us in the end and are also going to kill the good reputation Sweden have around the globe. Because with no young people to regenerate the workforce with NOW, no company (workplace) can keep the knowledge alive. Only registered users can write comments.
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