The remaining places with high shares of working, high school-educated young people overlap with the areas with high shares of disconnected youth or live in places with similar economic characteristics in that their industry base does not require a highly-educated labor pool or they have an above-average unemployment rate.
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With economies fueled by the energy sector, wholesale trade, advanced manufacturing, and professional services, these areas draw more people into the workforce, even those with less experience and education who might not otherwise be competitive candidates. These include Tulsa County, Oklahoma Salt Lake County, Utah and a number of Texas counties in the Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio regions. On the other hand, almost half of the 20 places with the highest shares of employed young people with a high school diploma or less have tighter labor markets and lower unemployment rates. Many of these places have sizable black and Latino populations, who have lower rates of school enrollment overall. Many such places are contending with deindustrialization, the after effects of the housing bust and depressed consumer spending, general economic shifts favoring technology and digital skills, or some combination of these trends. They include cities with an industrial past, such as Detroit, Philadelphia, and Baltimore less densely developed areas with an agricultural heritage, such as Hildalgo County in southern Texas and Kern and Stanislaus counties in California’s Central Valley and Sunbelt areas with fast-growing construction, hospitality, or logistic sectors, such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, and several Florida counties.
Vulnerable young people live in a diverse set of placesĭisconnected young people are concentrated in places with above average unemployment rates. That is, 5.3 million 18-24 year-olds-17 percent of all young adults-are done with school, at least for now, and are participating in the work world armed with no more than a high school diploma. The largest share of the working/not-in-school group (nearly half, or 42 percent) has only a high school diploma another ten percent has less than a high school education. Although these young people are connected to the labor market, not all connections are equal.Ĭareer advancement prospects are limited for workers with low levels of education, and the data are not promising on this front: only one in five of the working/not-in-school group has an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree. However, larger numbers of the not-in-school group are working: 33 percent of all young adults, or about 10 million. One in three young adults go to work rather than school, but few have college degrees Young people disconnected from school and work have received a great deal of policy and program interest as of late, and deservedly so: they face a number of roadblocks on the path to adulthood and successful careers. About 25 percent did not finish high school. Half of this not-working/not-in-school group has a high school diploma, and nearly 20 percent has taken some college courses but did not earn a degree. Most disconnected youth-those neither working nor in school-have a high school diplomaĪbout 15 percent of all young people, or 4.7 million, fall into the category of disconnected or opportunity youth, meaning they aren’t in school and don’t have a job. Some of them have graduated from high school or college, but many appear to have decided they were finished, to borrow Kanye West’s phrasing. Almost half (48 percent) of all young people, about 15 million, are not in school.
In this blog post, we look at 18-24 year-olds who are not enrolled in school to get a rough measure of how well young people are navigating these transitions.
Transitions are a time of promise but also vulnerability. More education means more transitions-enrolling in a college or training program that’s affordable and a good fit, completing the program to earn a degree or credential, and then starting a career. However, while the message about the importance of a college education is clear, the path is not always smooth.
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