The numbers are startling: Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 have jobs, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. That's the lowest employment rate for this age group since the government began keeping track in 1948 (62 percent had jobs in 2007).
So in spite of college credits (and debt), impressive internships and a desire to work, too many kids are living in their parents' basements—or, in worst-case scenarios, on the streets.
IIABA's Project InVEST is mostly associated with professional mentoring at the high school or college levels. But recently, InVEST has been getting creative, reaching out to college vocational ed programs and, in one very creative instance, with a national shelter program for throwaway kids.
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