There is a strong association between age and unemployment. The youngest groups of the economically active, those between 15 and 34 years old, show the highest unemployment rate.

The unemployment rate has increased only slightly by 0.5% from 26.2% in September 2004 to 26.7% in September 2005.

Discouraged work seekers decreased by 512 000, meaning more people looked for work.

We are starting a new group for individuals 18 to 30 years of age. We are accepting charter members now who want to support community events without the costs involved of a weekly lunch meeting and dues.

Well, it could happen again. We don't have any huge widespread drug problems, but middle school is often the age of experimentation and that's why we want to help our students have a way to say no.

I was on the dole for a very short time, for about two weeks. I didn’t want to be lining up in the dole office. I hated that place, didn’t want nothing to do with it. I didn’t feel I belonged there. The two times I turned up, I bitterly resented it and I swore I’d never go back there. I really didn’t like the whole format of it, or the institutionalization it entailed, or the way they make you feel somehow guilty about it all. That’s your right – you’ve worked, or your parents have worked. If the state can’t provide jobs, then what the fuck are you supposed to do? In many ways I completely understand people taking to illegal activities, because frankly there’s no other way to make any kind of money at all, or get yourself out of the dumps. For me, personally, I could never get involved with theft, I can’t do it.