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Speaker 1: Unemployment up to five point three percent here at home

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Speaker 1: hire Since twenty sixteen, one hundred and sixty thousand people jobless,

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Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty four year olds fifteen point two percent.

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Speaker 1: That's up from thirteen just over thirteen in the year prior.

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Speaker 1: Zenab Ali is CEO of Youth Inspired with me this morning,

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Speaker 1: is Zaynab Good to have you on the show.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Economists are saying this is the bottom of the rut.

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Speaker 1: We will come up from here. What are you seeing?

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Speaker 2: Look, that's not how it feels on the ground at

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Speaker 2: the moment, Ryan, So it's one thing to look at it.

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Speaker 2: I suppose from a more academic point of view. We

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Speaker 2: know these things are cyclic. It doesn't feel like it.

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Speaker 2: We still have our local business partners in the business

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Speaker 2: community is still really struggling quarter at a time. We

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Speaker 2: know that for us here in our region, a local

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Speaker 2: business survey last month indicated that only twenty percent of

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Speaker 2: businesses are hiring. So yeah, I hope that that's true.

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Speaker 2: I've heard similar things in the past and it's gotten worse.

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Speaker 2: But we're really feeling it on the ground at the moment,

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Speaker 2: especially with our young rang Atahi.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem, isn't it that you've got We've been

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Speaker 1: told so many times now that things are going to

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Speaker 1: get better. It's almost like the boy who cried Welf

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, and it's all in hindsight. Oh well, you

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Speaker 2: know this factor this situation. But I think it's not

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Speaker 2: to make the situation, you know, a bad news story

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Speaker 2: or for business confidence to go down. But on the ground,

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Speaker 2: real people every day are really struggling. And I think

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Speaker 2: I think there's a rhetoric out there Ryan that it's like,

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Speaker 2: if you want to work, there's a job for you,

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Speaker 2: and I can promise you that it's not the case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not in all cases, one hundred percent. Zanam Ali,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time this morning. It's CEO Youth Inspire.

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