Phillip Jackson

Men and women in their late teens and early 20s are struggling, but some are especially hard hit. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, the unemployment rate last year among high-school dropouts between ages 16 and 24 was 29 percent—up from 17.7 percent in 2000 and seven points higher than that of their peers who finished high school but didn't go on to college. The … [Read more...] about Among minorities, a new wave of ‘disconnected youth’