The Guardian has issued a correction regarding an article about young people not in education, employment or training (Neet). The original piece stated that someone in this position in early adulthood "could lose out on £52,000 a year on average over the course of their working life." This was incorrect. The £52,000 figure is not the amount they could lose every year; rather, it is the total loss over their entire working life for each year spent in those circumstances. The article in question was published on 29 May (page 6, from page 1) under the headline "Labour plans welfare shake-up as scale of youth jobs crisis revealed."
Other Recently Amended Articles
In addition to the Neet correction, several other articles have been recently amended. These include:
- "I know what it’s like to be 80. We have reason to worry about Trump’s health"
- "Roller skates! Pointe shoes! Parachutes! A mythic dance takes flight again at a Brooklyn rink"
- "Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate De la Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff"
- "Students would save $3bn over a decade if Labor changed Hecs indexation date by five months"
- "‘Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city’: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles"
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