The Future of Millennial Jobs

The Future of Millennial Jobs explores the future of the labor force for Millennials and how higher education can better align with future job market demands. The report concludes that many young adults, ages 18 to 34 years-old, are uniquely prepared for jobs of the future with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively navigate workforce opportunities, yet points to reasons for concern, too: a growing number of Millennials, lacking access to technology and other resources, will be left behind

The Best Jobs for Millennials

"The Best Jobs for Millennials" highlights and ranks the careers that set up young adults for economic security. Young Invincibles analyzed 400 occupations considering three key criteria: their median salaries, projected future growth, and percent of positions held by Millennials. Also included is an analysis of access to the best jobs by gender

In This Together: The Hidden Cost of Young Adult Unemployment

At a time when young people are facing a mountain of new challenges in college, the labor market, and the home, this report, lays clear how much the failure to provide young people with good jobs is costing America's economy and the public each year at the federal and state level. The findings are staggering: severely high youth unemployment costs $9 billion in tax revenue each year. This report is a call to action for the national public, and the message shouldn't be taken lightly. How we tackle the problems facing today's youth has enormous implications for what the rest of the 21st century will look like in the U.S. Their policy proposals represent the opening of a national dialogue about how to address our current youth employment crisis. at the federal and state level

Closing the Race Gap: Alleviating Young African American Unemployment Through Education

While the Great Recession continues to have ripple effects on the entire Millennial generation, young African Americans face unemployment rates that are twice that of their white peers. Closing the Race Gap takes an unprecedented look at the driving forces behind racial disparities in the job market, and how higher education can help fight joblessness

Good Work in Canadian Childcare: Complicating the Love/Money Divide

Extended interviews with thirty seven experienced and student childcare providers in Vancouver, British Columbia, provide data for an analysis of the love/money dichotomy often used to understand work in childcare. Providers talked both about the pulls between "money" and "love" and about their desire for other rewards from their work. This article uses ideas of workplace democracy and feminist social justice theories to help articulate how childcare work can be understood and supported as good work.De longues entrevues avec 37 étudiantes et travailleuses de garderie chevronnées à Vancouver, en Colombie - Britannique, fournissent les données nécessaires pour faire l'analyse de la dichotomie entre l'amour et l'argent qui est souvent employée pour aider à comprendre le travail en milieu de garderie. Cet article se sert des idées de la démocratie en milieu de travail et de théories féministes sur la justice sociale pour aider à articuler comment le travail de garderie fonctionne et comment il peut être compris et appuyé en tant que travail appréciable

Where Do Young Adults Work?

After a long recovery from the Great Recession, nearly 50 million Millennials are currently working across the nation, comprising a third of the workforce today. This report provides a snapshot of the present economic landscape for America's 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

Major Malfunction: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in What Students Study

This analysis explores bachelor's degrees earned by race and ethnicity, broken down by area of study. The report identifies the majors and programs that produce the highest and lowest median incomes (both at the start of one's career and in the middle of one's career) and probes for uneven distributions of African American and Latino students. The report finds that these students disproportionately earn more degrees in low-paying majors, and fewer degrees in the highest paying majors