Youth in the USA - Framework for Growing Up in the U.S.

Youth in the USA

to find a job after college. If they are able to find a job, many entry-level jobs do not pay young people enough to be able to live and to pay back their student loans. Youth unemployment in general tends to ebb and flow as the economy shifts, just as the general labor market does, but in general young people in the United States always have a higher unemployment rate. Generally, the youth population in the United States has a large porti - on of individuals who are neither working nor actively looking for work because they are in some sort of school or training program. Therefore, the national unemploy - ment rate for this group is often higher because young people have little to no labor market experience, and frequently lack the relevant skills to do the types of in demand jobs the economy asks for. Businesses also face higher costs of investment in more seasoned employees and lower costs of termination with younger workers,

which results in young people being the first to go if a company is trying to reduce their labor costs. It should be said, however that this reality is changing with the changing demographics facing much of the world, but especially in the United States. Young people opting out of, or exiting the labor force, is an issue of concern, parti - cularly when they do not go on to undertake some form of training or other productive activity that a retiring ge - neration of workers is no longer able to do.

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