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title: "Listen 702: How to solve the youth unemployment crisis - yes4youth"
description: "Leanne Emery, Acting Co-CEO YES discusses how the youth unemployment issue be better dealt with. #SayYES to a future that works."
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# [Listen 702: How to solve the youth unemployment crisis - yes4youth](https://blog.yes4youth.co.za/updates/listen-702-how-to-solve-the-youth-unemployment-crisis)

 Written by [Admin](https://blog.yes4youth.co.za/updates/author/admin) | Aug 25, 2021 8:15:39 AM

### Leanne Emery, Acting Co-CEO of the Youth Employment Service (YES), reacting to the SA’s quarterly labour force survey showing that unemployment increased to 34.4% in the second quarter of this year, from 32.6% in the first quarter. How can the unemployment issue be better dealt with.

[http://yes4youth.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Unemployment-increased-to-34.4-in-the-second-quarter-of-this-year_-Stats-SA.mp3](https://yes4youth.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Unemployment-increased-to-34.4-in-the-second-quarter-of-this-year_-Stats-SA.mp3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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