The Crisis of Unemployment Among Chicago Youth [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/21/174:00 AM

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s most recent numbers, the unemployment rate in Illinois is 4.6 percent. But if you look at certain segments of the state’s population, the numbers tell a different story. Illinois’s youth are experiencing joblessness at a rate of nearly 70 percent—almost 16 times the statewide average. Chicago’s Cook County is home to the largest share of this demographic, with the situation particularly difficult for the 21,500 16- to 24-year-olds without a high-school diploma who are both out of school and out of work.*

[For more of this story, written by Mimi Kirk, go to https://www.citylab.com/life/2...-joblessness/530643/]

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