Youth Disconnection Post COVID, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)

Some rate the economy based on the percentage of people actively looking for work who don’t yet have jobs – that’s the unemployment rate is now at a low 3.6% percent – it’s only been lower three times in the last 50 years. However, that statistic misses people who’ve vanished, many of them students and the youngest of workers.

It’s important because being disconnected as a teenager or young adult leads to lower wages, higher lifetime unemployment, and more contact with the criminal justice system, as well as worse health and less happiness. So it’s critically important for young people themselves. We all pay a high price for youth disconnection because it leads to lower tax revenues, reduced competitiveness as a nation, higher health and criminal justice costs, and more.

The rates went up across the board, but the groups already struggling the most — Native American young people, and Black young people — really saw a spike. According to our data, about 1 in 4 Native American young people are out of school and out of work in 2020, and about 1 in 5 Black young people.

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