As China’s economy wobbles, Beijing stops publishing data on ballooning youth unemployment


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Open this photo in gallery: Workers unload bicycles from a bike-share service from a truck on a roadside in Beijing. China's government skipped giving an update on a politically sensitive spike in unemployment among young people as official data Tuesday showed an economic slump deepened in July.Andy Wong/The Associated Press Next month, millions of new graduates are due to enter China’s toughest job market in decades, further driving up already record-high youth unemployment. Just how much won’t be known, however: officials say they will no longer publish jobless data for 16 to 24-year-olds, citing a “constantly developing and changing” economy....