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How to address both unemployment and the need for social innovation?

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    Below you can see two (shocking) statistics about (un)employment, as well as youth. The world needs to create more than 500 million new jobs by 2020 to provide career opportunities for the currently unemployed; as well as young people who will be joining the workforce. Source ILO 2012 Young and jobless in numbers: 75 million 
 or 12.6% of young people are
unemployed worldwide Three times more likely to be jobless 7.5 million are not in education or training Youth unemployment is highest in North Africa - 27.9% and lowest in East Asia - 9% Source: ILO 2011 This means that a lot of action and commitment is needed to address this ticking time bomb. At the same time, there are many social issues that need to be tackled and where social innovation is a must. Social Innovation areas: -        -  Poverty -        -  Food -        -  Water -        -  Sanitation -        -  Climate change -        -  Energy -        -