By Danya Perez-Hernandez “While early college high schools are a step in the right direction, it will take more for Texas to close the race gap in employment opportunities among young people of color, according to a new study. The...
By Vicki Alger “What do Millennials want? A lot more workplace flexibility, according to a new report from Young Invincibles, a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to expand economic opportunity for young adults ages 18 to 34 years.” Read more here.
Por Karina Ramírez “¿Qué impide que los jóvenes latinos sean exitosos en sus estudios o sus carreras profesionales? Varios grupos nacionales y locales citan la brecha racial, la falta de trabajo y la falta de participación en asociaciones profesionales. Son...
By Peter Thomas Ricci “The last few months, we’ve reported consistently that the big problem facing housing (as well as the greater economy) is that of stagnant wages, and that until wages grow at the same rate of costs –...
By Alex Swoyer “With the unemployment rate for 18- to 29-year-olds standing at roughly 10 percent — well above the national average — one organization is evaluating what millennials can do to change the future workforce. ‘Millennials should take a...
By Ronald Roach “Enrolling Americans with student loan debt in an automatic Income-Based Repayment system and automating their repayments through employer payroll withholding could substantially simplify the student loan system and lessen the number of loan defaults, contends three higher...
By Eric Pianin Are the “young invincibles” making a huge mistake by turning up their noses at federal job opportunities? That’s a question worth exploring in light of two reports out on Tuesday: One shows that many millennials are growing...
By Allie Bidwell “There’s no doubt technology is changing the world in which we live. New developments are creating jobs, making others obsolete and transforming the nation’s higher education system. But there’s still a disparity between workforce demands and worker...
By Emily DeRuy “When you get sick in 30 years, a lab tech might have you swallow a nanobot that cruises through your insides collecting data before transmitting it to a computer that spits out a prescription. When you need...
By Libby Nelson “The first book on Millennials, Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, was published in 2000. And it contains a sentence that in hindsight is darkly, hilariously wrong: ‘For Millennials, the Dow Jones only goes up, people only...