Paying teenagers to go to school was a bad idea
At least in Britain
Andy burnham was unhappy. The government was “kicking away the ladder of opportunity”, he argued in January 2011. Mr Burnham, who was then a Labour mp and is now mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of “stacking the odds” against young people. And he had a warning for the Tories, who were running Britain in coalition with the Liberal Democrats. If they did not relent, young people would never vote for them.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Reading, writing and arithmetic”
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