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Human Capital Investment: Would Higher-Order Skills Help Disconnected Youth?, No. 25-24

DATE: June 2025

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In 2024, around 12 percent of people aged 16-24 in the U.S. were classified as "NEET" (not in employment, education or training, also considered "disconnected youth"). Drilling further down, a larger share of young women than young men are NEET, and those rates increase with age. Also, rural areas show higher rates of disconnected youth, with a peak of almost 30 percent among young Black men. High school graduation emerges as a critical inflection point: About half of NEET youth have high school diplomas but no college experience.

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Macaluso, Claudia. "Human Capital Investment: Would Higher-Order Skills Help Disconnected Youth?, No. 25-24," Economic Brief (June 2025). https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/6034/item/688296, accessed on December 9, 2025.

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