Show 40 OF YOUTHS NOT IN SCHOOL unemployed forty per cent of the american youth not in school do not have jobs those that are arc working do not think their jobs very desirable these are arc the two outstanding facts of the youth unemployment pro problem blem in america according to dr frank K X professor of educational and vocational guidance at the college of the city of new york a guest instructor at the university of utah summer school of every young men be tween acen the ages of 16 and 24 in the united states 23 are arc still in I 1 I 1 school 47 are working and 30 are arc I 1 looking for jobs and cant find them according to dr shuttle v orth of women in that age group 23 are in school 30 are ar married and keeping house 23 are working and 19 are on the labor market the speaker took look his fig j ures from a research group of the american youth commission though industrial revival would greatly alleviate unemployment the solution to the problem of desirable jobs is one of psychology dr told a summer school audience american amerian dional ambitions arc set too high in the past emigrants did the hard cheap labor each generation wants a better job than dad had I 1 and we have been able to climo climb the vocational ladder because the emigrants were ready to stand on the lower rungs explained pla ined now the american people must face the fact that we must do the dirty work in the fui ture turc the monotonous unskilled hard day lab labor we and our children must readjust our vocational aims aims and realize that thai each generation cant continue to climb the vocational ladder other ways of coping with the unemployment employment in of youth are vocational guidance and keeping k e e p i n c hildren children in school over a longer longe period of years by estabi establishing ashing unior junior colleges and raising the age for or compulsory school attendance |