#towerlives: Butetown 'postcode barrier to work'

#towerlives is a week-long festival of storytelling and music, on air and on the ground, around the council estate tower blocks of Butetown in Cardiff.

For many people in Butetown one of the most pressing issues is finding work as unemployment is double the Welsh average.

The number of people on the estate with qualifications has risen from 40% in 2001 to more than 60% although the employment rates remain. Here, A level student Zack Ahmed, 17, explores what could be done.

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