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Bern, youth unemployment is particularly high, with no training at school or after leaving school in essential spheres of production, such as factory work.
There are no incentives either for this kind of work, as incentives usually centre on IT skills, yet there cannot be enough available places in offices for so many IT learned people.
Basicly, a minimum wage job does not confer membership of the middle class, and I'd dare say that even a £10 an hour job won't either, unless one owns one's own house and needn't pay rent or mortgage.
If this is not the case, then it just takes one act of redundancy to send a person into poverty, ie JSA.
Bern, most young people will not be able to afford to buy a house, at this present rate. The market prices are speculation-ridden, unrealistic, and the job-market is in shambles.
The money is not around in most people's purse to afford more than the essentials, unless they are free from paying rent/mortgage and have more than a JSA allowance.
To have a low-medium paid job but having to pay rent/mortgage is a precarious situation, verging onto serfdom, and unfortunately JSA is the rock bottom.
More and more people are falling into it.
I'm lucky, because I know I've got work for the next few months.
Middle class, Bern? Nah, not me!
