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Disconnected Young Adults: Increasing Engagement and Opportunity

Pamela Loprest, Shayne Spaulding, Demetra Smith Nightingale
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2019, 5 (5) 221-243; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.11
Pamela Loprest
aA senior fellow at the Urban Institute
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vol. 5 no. 5 221-243
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.11

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2377-8253
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  • Published online November 4, 2019.

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© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Loprest, Pamela, Shayne Spaulding, and Demetra Smith Nightingale. 2019. “Disconnected Young Adults: Increasing Engagement and Opportunity.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(5): 221–43. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.11. The authors would like to acknowledge review and helpful comments by Harry Holzer, Erica Groshen, Gregory Acs, and participants at the Russell Sage Foundation’s Improving Employment and Earnings in Twenty-First Century Labor Markets conference. Direct correspondence to: Pamela Loprest at ploprest@urban.org, Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20024; Shayne Spaulding at sspaulding@urban.org, Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20024; and Demetra Smith Nightingale at dnightingale@urban.org, Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20024. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Pamela Lopresta,
  2. Shayne Spauldingb and
  3. Demetra Smith Nightingalec
  1. aA senior fellow at the Urban Institute
  2. bA senior fellow at the Urban Institute
  3. cAn institute fellow at the Urban Institute
  1. Correspondence authors:
    Pamela Loprest, (ploprest{at}urban.org), Shayne Spaulding, (sspaulding{at}urban.org), Demetra Smith Nightingale, (dnightingale{at}urban.org)
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    • EMPLOYMENT AND DISCONNECTION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE
    • CAUSES OF YOUTH DISCONNECTION
    • CONSEQUENCES OF DISCONNECTION AMONG YOUTH
    • PROGRAM AND POLICY SOLUTIONS TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT AND OPPORTUNITY
    • IMPROVING COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO BETTER SERVE DISCONNECTED YOUTH
    • REDUCING BARRIERS TO WORK AND SCHOOLING
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