Are those voices being heard when it comes to the election?
Courses to help young people get into work are held at the Spectrum Centre on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
Among them is 18-year-old Donna Rennie who said she would "love to get a job".
"I've applied for loads but it doesn't work, there's always somebody better," she said.
"It's not a nice feeling."
It's a feeling Marc Young knows only too well.
"I went to school, got my GCSEs and A-levels and I thought I would walk into a job but I haven't," he added.
"I've applied everywhere and just haven't heard back which is really frustrating."
So what is the answer? What should the politicians be doing?
William Glass has been in and out of jobs for the past two years since leaving school at 16.
"Why not spend the time, the four years in school, training for a job or career that you want to be in?
"Then more people are going to have the skills they need for the job. "I want a career, I don't want to be going from job to job."
Thomas McKeown is looking for a job in youth work and he feels frustrated when he watches what happens at Stormont.
"I feel the politicians today are just so bitter-minded about wanting to get one up on each other," he said.
"How long do we actually want this to go on? It's been going on long enough."
William agrees: "I believe there are people in Stormont who are stuck in the past and fighting. "For me, that era is truly over.
"I want to see people using legal highs to get help and I want to see drug reform and better health care."
And Dylan Bell believes the politicians need to be more visible when it isn't election time.
"You see the politicians round your door every day for a month and a half," he said.
"Then the rest of the ten and a half months you see them on the news and that's it - they're more worried about being on the big screen."

From April 2017, 600,000 small firms will not have to pay business rates, while 250,000 will pay lower rates.
To fund the giveaway, the chancellor capped debt interest payments used by larger firms to cut their corporation tax bills, to 30% of earnings.
George Osborne also said corporation tax would be cut to 17% by 2020.
Mr Osborne said his business tax reforms were part of a "Budget for small business".
The chancellor announced he was permanently raising the threshold for small business rate relief from £6,000 to a maximum of £15,000 and increasing higher rate relief from £18,000 to £51,000.
He said that the 600,000 small businesses relieved of paying business rates from next April would see an annual saving of nearly £6,000.
Mike Cherry, policy director at the Federation of Small Businesses, said: "The chancellor has listened to our calls for the tax system to be made simpler for small businesses and the self-employed and taken important action on business rates."
The chancellor also announced a number of reforms designed to help small businesses cope with what he called "the great unfairness" they faced when trying to compete with some suppliers selling goods online.
Mr Osborne said the government would take measures to stop overseas retailers storing goods in the UK and then selling the goods online without paying VAT.
He also introduced two new tax-free allowances worth £1,000 a year for so-called micro-entrepreneurs:  people who make money from occasional jobs or through renting out property they own.
The Treasury estimates that the debt interest rate relief cap, alongside other measures, will help raise £8bn over the next five years.
Among those other measures was the announcement that firms making an annual profit of over £5m would face the prospect of having the amount of past losses they could carry forward to offset their corporation tax bill capped to 50% of current profits.
Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI business lobby group, said: "The reduction in the headline corporation tax rate sends out a strong signal that the UK is open for global business investment, and reforms to interest deductibility are rightly in line with the international consensus.
But she added: "Changes to the tax treatment of losses will make it harder for larger scale-up firms and companies that have been through tough times to play their part in the recovery."
Almost one in five young people are unemployed in Northern Ireland, according to latest figures.
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Small businesses have welcomed what they said were long overdue reforms to tax policy as the chancellor doubled business rate relief.