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Martin Giles\/BBC<\/p>\nAmelia Reynolds and<\/p>\n
Nic RigbyBBC Politics East<\/p>\n
Martin Giles\/BBC<\/p>\n
Joe Burgess, 25, worked for a shipping firm in Felixstowe for two-and-a-half years before he was made redundant<\/p>\n
The reality for some young people looking for a job has been highlighted by a case in Suffolk where a young man has applied for 80 jobs in two months without success.<\/p>\n
Joe Burgess, 25, who lives in Felixstowe, worked for a shipping firm in Felixstowe for two-and-a-half years after leaving school and getting a diploma, before the firm decided to make those in his department redundant.<\/p>\n
He then got a job with another shipping firm but they made his role redundant after six months. Mr Burgess has now been unemployed for three months.<\/p>\n
The government said in August it had launched a scheme to get thousands more young people into training and work.<\/p>\n
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Joe Burgess had worked for a shipping firm for two-and-a-half years at the container port at Felixstowe in Suffolk<\/p>\n
This week the national unemployment rate rose from 4.7% to 4.8%,<\/a> driven “mostly by younger people”, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the East of England, the latest figures on youth unemployment show the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work has risen by 13.6% over the past 10 years, from 66,000 in June-Aug 2015 to 75,000 in June-Aug 2025.<\/p>\n Danni Hewson, AJ Bell’s head of financial analysis, said the figures were creating “a clearer picture of a labour market that’s soft, with younger workers facing the biggest challenges”.<\/p>\n Joe Burgess has been supported by his mother Amanda Burgess, who said she shared his “frustration” as he strived to get a job<\/p>\n Mr Burgess told BBC Politics East that over the past two months he had applied for 80 jobs without success.<\/p>\n “It’s been a constant cycle of redundancies. I just have to keep going, keep pushing myself,” he said.<\/p>\n His mother, Amanda Burgess, said her son had been “knocked down so often” but “doesn’t give up”.<\/p>\n “It’s so frustrating,” she said. “There’s not much help out there. It’s a scary time.”<\/p>\n In August this year the government said it had announced an extra \u00a345m to help “ensure that no young person will be left behind as we unlock economic growth”.<\/p>\n The then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall said: “This government will not stand by while so many young people are not in education or training – robbing them of their potential and our country of its future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amelia Reynolds and Nic RigbyBBC Politics East Martin Giles\/BBC Joe Burgess, 25, worked for a shipping firm in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,420,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-315256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115399223378167463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Martin](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9320acb0-ab79-11f0-adb1-afd098d794f7.jpg.webp.webp\")
Martin Giles\/BBC<\/p>\n