Black Youth Unemployment

EDM number 761 in 2009-10, proposed by Diane Abbott on 01/02/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Ethnic groups and Unemployment.

That this House is alarmed that almost half of young black people aged between 16 and 24 are unemployed; is concerned that ethnic groups have been hardest hit by the recession; notes that the Government's pledge to shield ethnic minorities from the recession has failed; further notes that surveys have revealed that black and Muslim young are disproportionately unemployed even when they have comparable qualifications to those in employment; believes institutional racism still exists in the workplace; and calls on the Government to address these issues by doing more to drive local employment in areas like Hackney and other Olympic boroughs where a disproportionately low number of people work on the Olympic site.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.