7.7 Million Young People Are Unemployed. We Need a New ‘Tree Army.’

Posted on AllSides May 23rd, 2020
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Nearly 7.7 million American workers younger than 30 are now unemployed and three million dropped out of the labor force in the past month. Combined that’s nearly one in three young workers, by far the highest rate since the country started tracking unemployment by age in 1948.

Nearly 40 percent worked in the devastated retail and food service sectors. And as the most recently hired, young workers are typically the first let go and often the last rehired, especially those of color.

As our country’s leaders consider a range of...

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https://nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/coronavirus-unemployment-youth.html

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