Thursday 25 February 2016

Day 15 - Friday, Feb 26 - Articles on Young and Unemployed Assignment

Young and Unemployed:

Getting a job isn't as simple as going to university and having it handed to you.
Getting a job is a competition.  Without proper planning, you put yourself at a serious disadvantage when you graduate university.

Article 1:
Read the following articles and answer the associated questions:
2016 Youth Unemployment Finally On The Radar
All answers are from this article, no other source:

1.  What is Canada's Youth Unemployment rate in the article?

2.  What country has the worst Youth unemployment rate?

3.  What country has the best youth unemployment rate?

4.  How did Stephen Harper not help the employment situation?

5.  How is Trudeau helping to make more jobs for young Canadians?

6.  What is the problem with the Liberal youth employment strategy?

Article 2:
Toronto Star: Young Educated, Unemployed - Part 2
Read this article and explain why the four people couldn't get jobs.
Suggest something that each person could have done so they would not be unemployed.

Article 3:
Read this article from yesterday!  This is recent news:
Free Education For Low-Income Students (NEWS FROM YESTERDAY!)
Find 2 other articles online talking about the same topic and link them in your blog.

Summarize these articles by explaining how Low-Income Students will get to go to university or college for free.

Read the insane comments from the comment section of this article.  What are some things people are saying against this? (give 3 screenshots, edited to show only what they said)  What are people saying in favour of this? (give 3 screenshots).

Why is this a good thing or bad thing for our society in your opinion?

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