If you’re under 30 and daily experience stats like this — “Young people are nearly three times as likely as adults to be unemployed.” — then it’s understandable that you’d be pissed off and possibly rioting.

Indeed, global unemployment is triggering global uprisings at an astonishing rate: “Unemployment is a scourge of society right now, and it has to be the front-and-center issue,” said Michael Greenstone, a former staff member for the White House Council of Economic Advisers. With youth unemployment nearing 40% in many countries, people are taking to the streets and airwaves to mobilize for change.

With Government the biggest employer and the one with the most to lose, it’s no wonder they are focusing on youth workers, many of which are currently earning between $15-30/hr — placing them in livelihoods well under the Federal poverty level!

And therein lays the rub and the worry for government: we’re under-preparing, under-paying, and undermining a generation of young workers — just at a time when we’re about to see mass retirements by Baby Boomers, who left a host of big, expensive problems in our laps:

• Record-breaking public debt and unemployment
• Global Warming
• Political unrest and despair

Not the rosiest prospects for those of us under 30, but there are concrete things we can do to turn the tide in our favor:

1. Reduce military spending by half — it’s a win-win for everyone.
2. Ask government to look at the unemployment problem differently, and turn OneStop Career Centers into lean, mean, distributed workforce development machines that user services like Job Rooster to put workers back to work today.
3. Make finding a job free and easy for everyone, and eliminate the need to have a computer or resume by taking job search mobile. Connect job seekers to local “upskilling” and training programs — particularly youth, who can’t travel as far as adults — using location-based technology.
4. Increase the retirement age slowly but surely.

Which ultimately may give us the time we need to get to work on what really matters: putting our government back to work for us, creating the jobs of tomorrow, all by solving today’s problems.

 

By: Nick Ellis, Founder of Job Rooster

http://www.jobrooster.com/