Grace MQuilten provides estimates on the costs of young people not entering the workforce, in her article in The Conversation (24 June 2014) about a specific program ‘The Social Studio’: ‘The cost of long-term unemployment to Australia’s social well-being is estimated at $3.3 billion per year. Civil Liberties Australia report that the costs of prison add up to an average of $111,325 per prisoner per year. The federal Department of Health reports that the average cost of hospitalisation for each mental health patient is about $365,000 per year.’
