The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth

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White House Council for Community Solutions
January 9, 2012
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Released by the White House Council for Community Solutions, this report describes the number of youth agest 16-24 who are out of school and work, highlights interesting disaggregated data about them, and calculates the immediate and lifetime economic cost to the taxpayer and society of failing to reconnect them (and what could be gained by doing so).

Click below to download the report (in PDF format).

Also check out the Opportunity Youth & Employment factsheet and a related report, Opportunity Road: The Promise and Challenge of America's Forgotten Youth.

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http://www.civicenterprises.net/reports/econ_value_opportunity_youth.pdf
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