Adding Up the Cost of Opportunity Youth

Funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, "The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth" compiles and analyzes data about youth 16-24 who are out of school and unemployed. Researchers from Columbia University and the University of New York highlight interesting disaggregated data about these youth, calculate the immediate and lifetime economic cost to the taxpayer and society of failing to reconnect them, outline what could be gained from reconnection, and provide some ideas for paths to re-engage them. You can view the report here.