The Alberta Government is launching a youth hiring incentive aimed at curbing youth unemployment.

The province is providing $8 million for the new Alberta Youth Employment Incentive, which will provide grants to employers to offset costs associated with hiring, training and employing youth from ages 15-24. The initiative is expected to support around 1,000 businesses to hire 2,500 young Albertans.

The youth unemployment rate in Canada was 14.5 per cent in August, while it sat at about 17 per cent in Alberta. The Alberta Government noted in its release announcing the new initative that the province "especially feels the impact as the result of rapid population growth through international immigration and the highest interprovincial migration of any other province".

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