John Hoben of the New Brunswick Student Association tells CHSJ News the 6.4% jump in jobless youth is of huge concern to them, especially since the government hasn't listened to their requests to beef up work placement programs for new grads.
Hoben says the answer is to strengthen programs like SEED instead of axing their funding, but so far they've been met with resistance to doing that. Hoben says the 6.4% jump in youth unemployment translates into hundreds more young people out of work this summer.
