Youth in the USA
Rules and Regulation for Youth Employment
the foundation for youth to choose among multiple pathways – to enroll in college, begin full-time employ - ment, or a combination. Youth apprenticeships provide opportunities for youth to experience, and gain skills in, a real work environment as well. Simultaneously, they give businesses a chance to inspire and develop a new generation of talent. Military Youth can opt to join the military at the age of seventeen. Within the United States military, one can choose or be accepted into the following branches: the Army, the Ma - rine Corps, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Coast Guard. In order to become a member of the military, a young person must take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) exam. The results that one receives on this exam, as well as one’s physical fitness, education level, and eyesight will help determine the type of job
There is no federal law nor mandate regarding work per - mits for youth, but child labor laws and rules limit how many hours adolescent youth can work in a day, along with when a youth can work, and in which jobs a youth can work. These rules vary depending on the youth’s age and states also have different rules and regulations. Employers are allowed to pay a minimum wage of USD 4.25 an hour to employees who are under twenty years of age during the first ninety consecutive calendar days after initial employment. While the law contains certain protections for these youth employees and also prohi - bits employers from displacing any current employee in order to hire someone at the youth minimum wage, very few are willing to work for such low wages.
and branch where a person will be placed. If a person has been on active duty in the mili - tary for at least two years, they are eligible for financial support for tuition and other educa - tional expenses through the Montgomery GI Bill . As such, the military can often be a poten - tial professional pathway for youth in poverty who would like to find a way to finance their education, travel, and make their way up the socioeconomic ladder. Student Debt More than half of High-School graduates go on to attend University or College. Currently, many young people must take out student loans in order to attend college because the costs are so high which is not something that many of their parent’s generation had to do. Student loan borrowers in the United States owe a collective USD 1.75 trillion in federal and private student loan debt as of April 2022. Forty-three million Americans have student loan debt — which is one in eight Americans (13 %). Those ages twenty-five to thirty-four are the most likely to hold student loan debt, but the greatest amount is owed by those thir - ty-five to forty-nine — which is more than USD 600 billion. Among all borrowers, women typi - cally borrow more for college compared with men (and attain more degrees). And Black stu - dents borrow more often and greater amounts compared with all other races and ethnicities, according to federal data.
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