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Youth Have Opportunities for Employment or Career Readiness (Talbot County) (Formerly School Transition)

Percent of Youth Ages 16-24 Not in School and Not Working

Current Value

13.2%

2018

Definition

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Story Behind the Curve

  1. Lack of employment opportunities
  2. Child care costs
  3. Transportation and Job Training

Partners

What Works

  1. Bringing a major corporation to town such as Merck, Google, etc.
  2. Hiring a lobbyist to change the system and give a 50% rebate to all working parents
  3. Chesapeake College take over the hospital when it closes so that people can walk, bike or segway to work. With a whole wing dedicated to child care and training people to be child care workers.

Strategy

Data Discussion

Indicator: Youth Not in School and Not Working (% ages 16-24)
Definition:
The percentage of the population ages 16 to 24 who are not enrolled in school and who are not working (either unemployed or not in the labor force).

Source: Measure of America analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey PUMS Microdata (http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml) and custom tabulations for county and county equivalents provided by special arrangement with the U.S. Census Bureau.

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