Unique challenges confront today’s young adults navigating our financial system. They entered the workforce during a severe recession and as a result, continue to feel the impact of high unemployment and persistently stagnant wages. “Financial inclusion” — having access to affordable financial tools and services — is an...
Echoing the national employment picture, young adults unemployment rate fell again last month, from 6.9 percent in July to 6.7 percent in August (seasonably adjusted). Young African Americans, a group with persistently high unemployment rates, also dropped nearly two points...
By Tom Allison While the national unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent in July, the rate for young adults ages 18-to-34 rose slightly to 6.9 percent (seasonably adjusted) from 6.8 percent in June. Notably, sectors with high prevalence of apprenticeships...
Young workers make up a significant part of the Texas workforce, 39.7 percent of which is comprised of people between the ages of 16 to 34 years old. The state’s economic prospects rest on this generation’s ability to secure good...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 14, 2016 CONTACT: Nina Smith, nina.smith@younginvincibles.org, 301-717-9006 Damaging House Labor-H Bill Passes Appropriations Committee WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Appropriations Committee today passed the FY 2017 Labor-H Appropriations bill via a nearly party-line vote, which would cut...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, July 7, 2016 CONTACT: Nina Smith, nina.smith@younginvincibles.org, 301-717-9006 Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed out of committee HR 5587, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century...
The goal was to keep promoting parties after college. It wasn’t the most stable strategy, but I’ve been doing it since I was 17. I could excite a crowd, make friends out of strangers in the time it took to...
By Ellyn Fortino “Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s so-called “turnaround budget” does not call for increased taxes, but, instead, proposes significant cuts to higher education, Medicaid and other essential services as a means to tackle the state’s dire fiscal problems. During his first budget speech Wednesday before the Democrat-controlled state legislature, Rauner said...
By Rachel Riemenschneider and Samuel Wylde “Getting young people to engage in politics can be nearly impossible, but apparently even when they do, their requests fall on deaf ears. Between May and September last year, thousands of young Illinoisans came together online...
Young Invincibles’ Midwest Director Eve Rips writes an op-ed for Reboot Illinois calling for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner to represent the ideas conveyed to him by thousands of young people at this fall’s NextGen Illinois Convention as he gives his State of the...