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America – and especially Cook County – has a youth joblessness crisis, according to a new study from the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute. The report says too many young people in Cook County are neither working nor in school.

Say More talks with study author Matthew Wilson, economic development planner at the Great Cities Institute, and asks listeners about their first jobs and the lessons they learned from their early days of work.

From paper routes to fry cooks: What was your first job, and why can’t youth these days find one? A new study from the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute says youth joblessness is a ‘normalized crisis.’ Say More explores why.

Illinois, Chicago and Cook County rank among the worst for youth joblessness in the US, in a new report by the Great Cities Institute, commissioned by ASN.

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