Unemployed KY Youth Skyrocketing

WKMS | By The Associated Press,

Whitney Jones

Published December 4, 2012 at 8:17 AM CST

A nonprofit group says the number of young adults in Kentucky and around the nation not in school unemployed has skyrocketed since 2000. The Annie E. Casey Foundation released a report Monday blaming the problem on competition from older workers due to the recession and not being ready for college after high school graduation. From 2000 and 2011 the number of young adults in Kentucky between 20 and 24 who are unemployed and not in school grew by 88 percent. For 16 to 19 year olds the number rose only 3 percent.

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Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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