Culture
The Tragic Geography of Disconnected Youth
One in seven young Americans are neither working nor going to school.
More than one in seven young Americans are "disconnected" from work and from school, according to a report released Thursday by the Social Science Research Council's Measure of America project.
The report (PDF) is based on data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey, and looks specifically at the numbers of young people aged 16 to 24 who are not working nor enrolled in school. The report tracked the data for the U.S. as a whole, in comparison to other countries, by race, and for the 25 largest metro areas as well as neighborhoods within cities.