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Title: Where Do Young Adults Work?

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: The great recession hit young workers hard, leaving roughly five million young adults unemployed five years after the downturn officially ended. However, nearly 50 million Millennials (young adults aged 18 to 34) are currently working across the nation, comprising a third of the workforce today. Eventually, that will grow to half by 2020. Where young people work and how their earnings have fared since the economic downturn have enormous implications for our economys future. In some states, most Millennials work in sectors with real wage growth, such as healthcare, while other common jobs in the service industry fail to provide reliable income that our generation desperately needs. Below is a snapshot of the present economic landscape for Americas young working adults, illustrating where our generation works by sector and geography as well as how the most popular sectors have fared since the economic downturn.

Url: http://younginvincibles.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Where-Do-Young-Adults-Work-12.3.pdf

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Authors: Allison, Tom; Mugglestone, Konrad

Publisher: younginvincibles.org

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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