The' Government are introducing an amendment into the Uneniploy - inent Insurance
Bill which will appreciably affect its -finance. They are now willing' to increase the 'benefits -paid to the new class Of young men and women between the -ages' of eighteen and twenty:one. The Bill originally proposed that yoUng men between twenty and twenty-one should receive 10s. - They are now to receive 14s. ` The Bill originally proposed that women between 'the ages Of twenty and twenty-one should receive 8s. They are now to receive 12s. Voting men between nineteen and twenty will receive 12s. instead of 10s., and young women between nineteen and twenty 10s. instead Of 8s: This amendment brings the Bill into keeping with the Blanesbiirgh Report, but we still hope that provision 'will be made for the training of young workers, for that is the most important point of all. There is a terrible risk 'of their becoming unemployable by remaining unem_ 'ployed till they have lost the aptitude and the will to 'learn a trade. * * * *
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