{"id":53633,"date":"2025-10-01T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/53633\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:40:07","slug":"peterborough-faces-complex-youth-unemployment-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/53633\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough faces complex youth unemployment challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A young man who is facing homelessness after a two-year search for work says it is &#8220;literally impossible&#8221; to find a job in his home city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twenty-year-old Lennie lives in Peterborough, which has one of the highest rates of young people not in employment, education or training, according to the local chambers of commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Business leaders in the city are working with colleges to try to help jobseekers, while Chancellor Rachel Reeves has described the issue as a national priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlotte Horobin, the chief executive of Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce, said that without action &#8220;we risk scarring our communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man who is facing homelessness after a two-year search for work says it is &#8220;literally impossible&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[138,232,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-53633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}