Research published has found that hundreds of thousands of young people feel they have nothing to live for, with the long-term unemployed being particularly pessimistic about their prospects, a youth charity has warned.
The warning is based on the findings of a YouGov poll for the Prince’s Trust Macquarie Youth Index, which also reports that 40% of jobless young people have experienced symptoms of mental illness, such as suicidal thoughts, or feelings of self-loathing and panic attacks, due to their unemployment.
Of those polled, 9% said they did not “have anything to live for”. This statistic, if applied to the population as a whole, equates to 750,000 people aged between 16 and 25, the Prince’s Trust said.
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