The young:
Suzy Khimm flags the above chart from May by Political Math. Khimm comments:
Labor force participation has been slowly declining for decades, in part because more young people are pursuing higher education. But there’s been a particularly sharp drop-off during the recession, as young workers have generally fared worse in the labor market than others: In 2011, their unemployment rate was 17.3 percent, while those aged 25 to 54 had an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent. And those who’ve stopped looking for work reported that they’ve done so because "that they were not able to find work, followed by the belief that no work was available," according to the Congressional Research Service
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