A new report from Measure of America, a project of the Social Science Research Council, finds Hancock County, located in central Georgia, has the nation’s highest rate of “youth disconnection” — young adults out of school and work.
And, despite recent gains in disconnection rates following the Great Recession, the report predicts the COVID-19 pandemic will cause disconnection to “spike dramatically.”
The organization noted, “the number of disconnected youth will easily top six million and could swell to almost one-quarter of all young people.”
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