{"id":302842,"date":"2025-12-16T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/cant-work-wont-work-why-is-youth-unemployment-so-high\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:00:50","slug":"cant-work-wont-work-why-is-youth-unemployment-so-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/cant-work-wont-work-why-is-youth-unemployment-so-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t work, won\u2019t work: Why is youth unemployment so high?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/c5sdQ8IHv7M\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Can\u2019t work, won\u2019t work: Why is youth unemployment so high?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c5sdQ8IHv7M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Work Christmas parties might be in full swing &#8211; but many young people are simply wishing they had a job to go\u00a0to.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Figures show the unemployment rate has risen again and those aged between 16 and 24 have been hit the hardest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays\u00a0it seems not even a degree\u00a0is enough to land you a job &#8211; so\u00a0what\u2019s\u00a0causing youth unemployment and what can be done to reduce it?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Niall is joined by social media\u00a0influencer\u00a0and careers adviser\u00a0Soshanna\u00a0Davis &#8211; better known as the Fairy\u00a0Job\u00a0Mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Producer:\u00a0Tom Gillespie\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Editor:\u00a0Mike Bovill\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work Christmas parties might be in full swing &#8211; but many young people are simply wishing they had a job to go\u00a0to.\u00a0\u00a0 Figures show the unemployment rate has risen again and those aged between 16 and 24 have been hit the hardest.\u00a0 Nowadays\u00a0it seems not even a degree\u00a0is enough to land you a job &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128811],"tags":[137029,128973,129992],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-302842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sky-news","tag-christmas","tag-parties","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can\u2019t work, won\u2019t work: Why is youth unemployment so high? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Can\u2019t work, won\u2019t work: Why is youth unemployment so high? for free, here on News ISC. 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