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Balls: Join job scheme or lose benefits cash
Labour plans to put 50,000 youth on min wage
Long-term unemployed people would be stripped of benefits by a future Labour government if they refused to join a temporary job scheme, shadow chancellor Ed Balls warned yesterday.
Labour's compulsory jobs guarantee scheme would apply to all 18 to 24-year-olds who have been out of work for a year.
It would also cover adults over 25 who claimed jobseeker's allowance for two years or more.
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