Last week Young Enterprise NI, the Belfast-based education and enterprise charity, lost its entire funding of £550,000 from the Department of Education. This cut came after the organisation had been praised by US President Joe Biden on his trip to Ireland as being “on the cutting edge of the future”. The lost funding accounts for more than half of the charity’s budget. Some 45,000 young people have been supported by the organisation in the areas of enterprise, entrepreneurship, and financial education and the charity specifically targeted those in areas of greatest social need. Young Enterprise chief executive Carol Fitzsimons, who…

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