By Elimu Assistant Team 
Factors that contribute to unemployment in Kenya today
- High population whereby there are too many people for the available job opportunities
- Lack of money to start individual businesses/unavailability of finances
- Some people lack skills which make them not to be absorbed in the job market
- Rural-urban migration-many people are congested in towns where job opportunities are limited
- Foreign Aid-Dependence on foreign aid causes the donors to give conditions of unemployment i.e. lean service
- Selfishness/greed-some Kenyans have more than two jobs while others lack
- Education system-many Kenyans prefer white-collar jobs after school
- Negative attitude towards work
- Unequal distribution of wealth
- New technological advancement that has led to retrenchment
- Highly qualified in preference to less qualified.
- Insecurity/increase in crime discourages local and international investors
- Bad governance/poor economic policies by the government
