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| The idle 'prentice executed at Tyburn. From William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness (1747). |
The Times this morning, Landon Thomas, Jr., was all on about the young people of London who are never in their natural lives going to have jobs—
Perhaps the most debilitating consequence of the euro zone’s economic downturn and its debt-driven austerity crusade has been the soaring rate of youth unemployment. Spain’s jobless rate for people ages 16 to 24 is approaching 50 percent. Greece’s is 48 percent, and Portugal’s and Italy’s, 30 percent. Here in Britain, the rate is 22.3 percent, the highest since such data began being collected in 1992.And indeed it's horrible, the sequence of stories of... Hang on a minute, when did Britain [jump]
