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What is an entrenched issue?

Race in America is an entrenched issue, obviously. This is a problem that goes all the way back to the slave trade and the founding of the United States itself.

Air pollution in Beijing is an entrenched problem. It’s been there for years and politicians have been working on it for equally long but still it remains and looks to be progressively getting worse. Beijingers, cough-cough, count on the next wind to blow pollutants away.

As to the reasons for entrenched issues…. Well, they are varied and deep-rooted too – That’s why the problems become entrenched.

Okay, here are media examples of various entrenched issues facing people here and here:

1. UNEMPLOYMENT among young people is at a staggering level when compared to the total estimated unemployment rate for the nation.

The overall national unemployment rate for March this year was steady at 5.5per cent.

The unemployment rate is the percentage of people in the labour force who are unemployed. The definition of employment is very generous though, as anyone who works for at least one hour or more a week for pay or profit is considered employed. Applying this definition doesn’t help in capturing the true extent of underemployment – those people who would like more work or a full-time job. This month’s Statistical Bulletin released by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library reported that “in February 2013 there were 65,000 young people actively looking for full-time work, an increase of 3800 on the previous month”.