New Orleans Has Third-Highest Rate Of ‘Opportunity Youth’

In the New Orleans metropolitan statistical area, an estimated 18.2 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds are neither working nor in school.

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Notes: Lighter bars indicate margin of error. Analysis based on 2013 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample data.

Source: Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives: “Reconnecting Opportunity Youth” (PDF)

Credit: Alyson Hurt/NPR