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David Bell and David Blanchflower

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Professor of Economics at University of Stirling and Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, US, former member of the BoE monetary policy committee, respectively.

Young, gifted and scarred…

June 14, 2020 by David Bell and David Blanchflower Leave a Comment

As much as a third (32%) of the Scottish workforce isn’t working in the lockdown but it’s the young who are the hardest hit and faces the bleakest future – unless we adopt New Deal-style measures to prevent a “lost generation” being scarred for life.

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