{"id":64,"date":"2021-04-08T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jos.world\/yfj-policy\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T12:15:05","slug":"social-and-economic-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/social-and-economic-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Social and Economic Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The welfare system that lies at the heart of the European social model should protect and promote the economic and social well-being of all its citizens. In reality however, young people face many barriers that prevent them from fully enjoying the social rights that allow them to live with dignity and free from poverty. The European Youth Forum works at the European level to help young people realise these rights, by advocating for policies that improve young people\u2019s access to social protection, quality jobs, and other rights like housing and access to mental health services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young people\u2019s social and economic inclusion has become an important priority for the European Youth Forum and its Member Organisations over the last decade. Many of the challenges young people face today are a direct legacy of the 2008 financial and economic crisis which saw youth unemployment, poverty and social exclusion skyrocket across Europe. Since the crisis, young people are increasingly trapped in a cycle of precarious work that offers little stability or security, such as temporary work or unpaid internships. Moreover, discriminatory social welfare eligibility criteria penalise young people simply because of their age or limited work experience, preventing them from accessing certain benefits. Ensuring young people can access these social rights is crucial for allowing them to live independently and to support their inclusion into society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building on the lessons from the 2008 crisis, today we work to reverse the impacts of austerity measures and the relaxation of labour legislation that has allowed precarious work to proliferate among youth. At the same time we seek to address the impacts of emerging megatrends set to radically shift the way Europe\u2019s labour markets and social welfare mechanism function. As the effects of globalisation, climate change, demographic changes, and technological advancements are changing the future of work, the European Youth Forum advocates for forward-looking, youth inclusive social and economic policies that ensure no young person is left behind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The welfare system that lies at the heart of the European social model should protect and promote the economic and social well-being of all its citizens. In reality however, young people face many barriers that prevent them from fully enjoying the social rights that allow them to live with dignity and free from poverty. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-policy-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39,36,31,38,33,40,34,32,35],"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-apprenticeships","category-future-of-work","category-internships","category-quality-jobs","category-quality-standards","category-social-and-economic-inclusion","category-social-protection","category-social-rights","category-youth-employment","category-youth-guarantee"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}