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The cost of youth unemployment

Apr 4, 2019
There are about 4.5 million young adults in their late teens and early 20s who are neither in school nor working.
Ricco Williams of Euclid, Ohio, never finished high school, but recently enrolled in a free tutoring program to prepare for the GED exam.
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Youth in Paris projects talk about finding their place

Dec 11, 2015
Teens try to figure out their place in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks.

CSI High: Preparing students for the job market

Mar 27, 2014
A town in Georgia has a unique problem. Too many skilled high school graduates and not enough jobs.

African-American students study up on entrepreneurship

Mar 5, 2014
High unemployment among African American teens lead many to look into entrepreneurship.

European youth 'consigned to the scrapheap of unemployment'

Dec 20, 2013
Marketplace has been looking at youth unemployment in Europe. The numbers are terrifying. Among 18 to 24 year olds in Greece, 60 percent are jobless. In southern Spain, it's 74 percent.

In Italy, youth unemployment hovers around 35 percent

Dec 19, 2013
Italy is out of recession now, but business leaders there say the recovery will be slow and tough.

Youth unemployment in Spain still high despite reform efforts

Dec 18, 2013
A continuation of our Jobless Generation series.

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Young Greeks struggle with lack of work

Dec 16, 2013
Many Greeks in their late twenties or early thirties live at home, dependent on their parents.

"Tragedy as a generation" for U.S. youth

Dec 3, 2013
Young Americans, between the ages of 16 and 24, have been hit awfully hard by the financial crisis.

A look at the employment challenges facing Millennials

Oct 3, 2013
Jeremy Feador is a 27-year-old part-time worker in Cleveland, Ohio, and has been struggling to find full-time employment.