youth unemployment

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/an-education-in-the-ways-of-the-workplace/


‎"Among workers aged 16 to 24, the unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. For young Latinos, it’s over 24 percent, and for young African Americans, it’s over 32 percent. Some 4.4 million youths are currently unemployed."


We all know the education system needs fixing; 1.3 million high school dropouts per year is untenable.


, 30 percent of U.S. public school students fail to graduate from high school (pdf), and more than half of those who enroll in higher education fail to earn a degree or credential within eight years.