A substantial share of America’s youth remains economically disconnected, even as the economy continues to recover. More than one in eight—13.8 percent—of young Americans ages 16 to 24 are neither working nor in school, according to a new report from the Social Science Research Council’s Measure of America project. The study is based on data from U.S. Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey.
(The chart to the left, from the study, shows rates of youth disconnection since 2006. In 2008, on the eve of the Great Recession, a low of 4.9 million U.S. youth were “disconnected,” or not at work or in school. But by 2010, just two years later, nearly an additional million youth had joined their ranks. And though the economy had improved considerably by 2013, the number of disconnected youths decreased only slightly, to 5.5 million.
[For more of this story, written by Richard Florida and Aarian Marshall, go to http://www.citylab.com/work/20...ng-its-youth/395927/]
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