

NEETS in Australia
Analysis on new research released this week by the OECD highlights the challenge for young people entering their working years, particularly in their transition from education. While unemployment in Australia at just 5.6% is one of the lowest in the developed world, the number of Australian young people not in education, employment, or training (NEETs) has increased by 100,000 since the time prior to the Global Financial Crisis (2008), rising from 10.5% to 11.8% of all those