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Closed petition Lower retirement age to open up jobs for the young.
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To tackle the increasingly high number of young people unemployed, the retirement age should remain low so that as older people retire it opens up their jobs for a younger generation. This has always happened in the past which is why as the retirement age has been raised, unemployment in younger generations has increased
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