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Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
Young people protesting about youth unemployment in Hamburg, Germany. Youth unemployment is a special case of unemployment with the youth, here being those between 15 and 24 years old. [1] It focuses on young people who may have had difficulties finding work. Youth unemployment is consistently different from those of the general workforce.
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
Werblow, Jacob, Luke Duesbery (2009). "The Impact of High School Size on Math Achievement and Dropout Rate". The High School Journal. 2009. "Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2007". National Center for Education Statistics. 2011. "The Condition of Education 2011". National Center for Education Statistics. 2012. “Table A-4.
Unemployment in the US by state (and 2 cities) for FY 2021 Unemployment by County (November 2021) Unemployment in the United States discusses the causes and measures of U.S. unemployment and strategies for reducing it. Job creation and unemployment are affected by factors such as economic conditions, global competition, education, automation ...
According to American educational psychologist David Berliner, home and community environments have a stronger impact on school achievement than in-school factors, in part because students spend more time outside of school than in school. In addition, the out-of-school factors influencing academic performance differ significantly between ...
Disconnected youth is a label in United States public policy debate for NEETs, a British term referring to young people "Not in Education, Employment, or Training". Measure of America 's July 2021 report says disconnected youth (defined as aged 16 to 24) number 4.1 million in the United States, about one in nine of the age cohort. [ 1 ]
In terms of ethnicity, the unemployment rate for young whites was 8.0%, for young blacks it was 16.2%, for young Asians it was 9.9%, and for young Hispanics, it was 10.1%. [34] By August 2020, youth unemployment had risen to 14.7%, [35] reflecting the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, by August 2024, young workers began to see ...