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One million under-21s will soon be out of work or education for the first time in 10 years.

The Resolution Foundation has urged the Labour Party government to act and stop young people from being “priced out of entry into the labour market”.

940,000 16-24-year-olds are now out of work, an increase of 195,000 in the past two years.

The last time it was this high was in 2012, when 1.2 million young Brits were out of work following the financial crisis.

Louise Murphy, from the Resolution Foundation, said: “The number of young people who are neither earning nor learning has risen sharply in recent years and is now nearing one million.

“The biggest factor driving this increase is workless young people reporting a disability or ill-health.

“This has doubled over the past 20 y

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