Plan which includes more than a dozen big US businesses is aimed at helping the 5.5 million unemployed Americans dubbed ‘disconnected youth’ by economists
Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz on Monday launched a plan for more than a dozen big US businesses to hire 100,000 young unemployed people by 2018.
The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative is aimed at trying to help the roughly 5.5 million Americans aged 16 to 24 who do not have jobs and have dropped out of education, a group economists have dubbed “disconnected youth”.
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