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And the new figures are expected to reflect a sharp increase in August, as school leavers and new graduates gave up hope of finding a job and joined the ranks at the jobcentre.

Young, unpaid and angry: interns go online to campaign for a wage 2011

When the latest unemployment figures are released on Wednesday, they will almost certainly show that joblessness jumped again in August, with youth unemployment hitting a million, as a fresh crop of disillusioned school-leavers and disappointed graduates trooped down to the jobcentre.

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It's like finding, at the jobcentre, that there are unicorns still needing shoeing, in liquid silver.

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'The jobcentre isn't interested in unpaid experience'Yvonne Kay, 23, from London, worked as an unpaid intern for the Labour party for six months until the general election last yearI enjoyed myself and it was something that I wanted to learn about.

Young, unpaid and angry: interns go online to campaign for a wage 2011

One jobcentre adviser helpfully suggested moving my bank account and complaining.

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On both of our housing estates in Ruraltown, The Swamp and The Reservation, with the notable exception of the Eastern European immigrants, very few of the youngsters are employed, despite the unfilled vacancies in the windows of the local jobcentre.

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He is being actively prevented from using his own initiative so that the jobcentre can tick boxes and meet targets.

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A Sudanese refugee I know, who arrived in the UK eight months ago, failed to answer one of his jobcentre adviser's questions correctly because of his lack of English and has now lost his only income.

Letters: Harsh reality of targets and job search 2011

However, the jobcentre has forbidden him from taking up these short-term internships.

Letters: Harsh reality of targets and job search 2011

I am glad I did it, but I am amazed now that when I speak to the people at the jobcentre, they aren't interested in unpaid experience – they only appear to be interested in looking at what I have been paid to do, so it is very frustrating.

Young, unpaid and angry: interns go online to campaign for a wage 2011