New York Daily News cites PPI Director of Young American Prosperity Project Diana Carew’s recent research on youth employment in a piece on the economic struggles of young people:
As of July, just 36% of Americans in that age group who are not enrolled in school were working full-time. Among the young people hunting for work — 23.5 million, or 60.5% of the total of 38.86 million — the unemployment rate is a whopping 16.3%.
And, like the overall unemployment figure, even that too-high figure conceals profound structural problems.
As Diana Carew, an economist at the left-leaning Progressive Policy Institute, put it: “ young Americans appear stuck in their post-recessionary state.”
