More than 16 million people have been out of work for at least a year in the first quarter of 2014, up from 8.7 million before the crisis, or more than one in three of all unemployed across the OECD's 34 member countries, the report said.
In particular, governments should give priority to providing employment and training measures for the long-term unemployed who experience a range of difficulties in finding jobs and are most likely to drop out of the labour force," it added.
Replace the work programme with more locally-focused schemes for helping the long term unemployed back to work.
A country party should be able to stand up in a cabinet that seeks to make young unemployed people apply for 40 jobs a month in towns that are lucky to have one job vacancy in that time.
Changes to unemployment benefits AKA "earn or learn" – blocked and sidelined Unemployed people under 30 would only be able to claim Newstart or Youth Allowance for six months of the year, and would have to take part in 25 hours a week of work-for-the dole programs if not studying or training.
If you're under 30 and unemployed, you're on your own for six months, with no income support at all.
Mostly unemployed, poor and disenchanted by corrupt governments, Somali youths are relatively easy to manipulate.
Labour only had a clear lead over the Conservatives among 18- to 34-year-olds, voters in social class DE (the "semi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations, unemployed and lowest grade occupations"), among private and social renters, and black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) voters.
If you are intending to go to university, if you are under 30 and unemployed, if you are a family with a child over 6, if you go to GPs, you'll going to be hit hard.
Even before yesterday's "hair shirt" budget – which slashed public sector workers' pay, cut back child benefit and reduced dole payments to the Irish unemployed – Fianna Fáil were deeply unpopular.
As a way to tackle America's unusually stubborn chronic unemployment problem, Obama is expected to announce a deal with the leaders of large employers, for example, that will involve them agreeing not to discriminate against the long-term unemployed when making hiring decisions.
