Employment of Young People

Archive Report

Youth Employment and the National Interest

In May, June, July 1950, American high schools and colleges together will graduate the largest number of students in their history. Secondary schools will give diplomas to about 1,200,000 boys and girls. Institutions of higher learning will award degrees to perhaps 487,000 young men and women, including many thousands of war veterans.

Not all of these young people will seek jobs immediately. Perhaps a third of those graduated from high school will go on to college; a much smaller proportion of the college graduates will continue academic work. Many girls will be married and become homemakers. But three-quarters of a million high-school and college graduates are expected to enter the labor market, and their number may be equalled by boys ...

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