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Fung, Sara; Haspel, Jessica; Kniffen, Susanna; Wondra, Danielle – Children Now, 2022
Employment is foundational to young people's successful transition into adulthood, yet many youth with lived experience in the foster care system struggle to obtain employment that provides a living wage. Youth with foster care experience typically do not have the same contacts and connections to employment opportunities as youth who have not been…
Descriptors: Youth, Foster Care, Barriers, Career Readiness
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Fitzner, Jennifer – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
While this paper discusses the history of neoliberalism with emphasis on the role of the United States, it also addresses the challenges neoliberalism poses for individuals. Additionally, the paper discusses the failure of school curriculum to prepare youth in the United States for growing economic uncertainty, as well as media's role in hindering…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Student Development, Futures (of Society), Curriculum Development
OECD Publishing, 2017
This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. Taking a life-course perspective the report shows how inequalities in education, health, employment and earnings compound, resulting in large differences in lifetime earnings…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Trend Analysis, Equal Education, Health