7 Aug 2024

Young people make up half of unemployment increase

From Checkpoint, 4:05 pm on 7 August 2024

New unemployment figures show 33,000 more New Zealanders are job less compared to this time last year, bringing the total to 143,000. Young people aged between 15 and 24 make up almost half of the increase in unemployent in the last quarter and the figures show many of them also want more work but just cant get the hours. Aaron Hendry from youth development charity, Kick Back, speaks to Lisa Owen.