More Young Americans Out of High School Are Also Out of Work
For this generation of young people, the future looks bleak. Only
one in six is working full time. Three out of five live with
their parents or other relatives. A large majority — 73 percent —
think they need more education to find a successful career, but
only half of those say they will definitely enroll in the next
few years.
No, they are not the idle youth of Greece or Spain or Egypt. They
are the youth of America, the world’s richest country, who do not
have college degrees and aren’t getting them anytime soon.