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This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament

Petition Equal wages and benefits for Britains youth.

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We live in a society where the amount a person has to live on is decided by age. How is it acceptable in a nation where youth employment is so low to further vindicate them with poorer wages and benefits amounts then there more experienced counterparts. It's hard to leave home, forge your own lives as the net of poverty ways you down. So more and more youngsters are trapped less financially able, trapped at home with there parents.We live in a society where the amount a person has to live on is decided by age. How is it acceptable in a nation where youth employment is so low to further vindicate them with poorer wages and benefits amounts then there more experienced counterparts. It's hard to leave home, forge your own lives as the net of poverty ways you down. So more and more youngsters are trapped less financially able, trapped at home with there parents.

It's time this changed, it's time we made our society fairer for our youth.

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