Connecting Young Adults to Employment – Results from a National Survey of Service Providers

Implications about how to better connect young adults to work

These findings have implications for the role of service-providing organizations seeking to assist the
large and growing population of disadvantaged young adults who seek to make meaningful connections
to the labor market. The importance of this work cannot be overstated. Young adults have historically
faced barriers to good income-earning opportunities, and their prospects have further diminished since
the Great Recession. Research shows that unemployment and underemployment for young adults will
have lasting consequences in the form of repressed wages, decreased upward mobility, and lessened
productivity over their work lives.

Further, a weak start in the labor market for the newest generation of
workers means lower tax revenues and higher safety net expenditures for the country over time.

Ranita Jain
with
Maureen Conway
and
Vickie Choitz

Full Report: http://www.aspenwsi.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/YAemploy.pdf