Follow the Change

According to the ZEW institute, more that 7.5 million young people in Europe are unemployed. This unfortunately leads to the conclusion that the programmes offered for  employment purposes by the E.U. do not help.

Research was carried  out by The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) after the Robert-Bosch foundation deemed it necessary, bearing the title of: 'Youth unemployment in Europe.' The results were particularly disturbing, especially for the countries  in the economic crisis. In 2012 one in two young people in Spain and Greece, did not have a job and was not a student at some educational institution.

Results which "should move us" points out the general director of the Robert-Bosch foundation. "We are creating something like a lost  generation and experts realize that these wounds that come in the beginning of one's career, heal slowly. People who remained unemployed in the beginning of their career, never managed to find and stay in a job. There is what you would call a 'vulnerable social condition' which one cannot get out of later on in life." 

Despite the 21 million euro financing from the Commission in such programmes, the ZEW do not expect  dramatic results in the decrease of youth unemployment. However, as the self-made billionaire  investor battler of financial education and writer of many bestsellers Robert T. Kiyosaki says, "The future belongs to those who can follow the changes of the times and those who can use their own personal disappointments as part of a learning process for the foundation of the future."

Follow the Change

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