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The Plummeting Labor Market Fortunes of Teens and Young Adults [14 March 2014]

By: Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, Mykhaylo Trubskyy, Martha Ross, Walter McHugh and Sheila Palma

http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2014/labor-market-metro-areas-teens-young-adults

or

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2014/03/14%20youth%20workforce/youth_workforce_report_final.pdf

[full-text, 28 pages]

Employment prospects for teens and young adults in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas plummeted between 2000 and 2011. On a number of measures—employment rates, labor force underutilization, unemployment, and year-round joblessness—teens and young adults fared poorly, and sometimes disastrously. This report provides a number of strategies to reduce youth joblessness and labor force underutilization.

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