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CLASP just released an updated set of data from our 2023 Youth Data Portrait that analyzes updated data related to Economic Justice, Healing and Well-being, and Justice and Safe Communities for youth and young adults. CLASP and New Deal for Youth began tracking this data in 2020, and even in this relatively brief period it is clear that the outlook in many of these areas has gotten worse over time.
We initially released this data to begin a dialogue on a New Deal for Youth that responds to the historic roots and current scale of the crisis. When the once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe is over, our future as a nation will depend on how intentionally we invest in this and future generations.
This first set of data shows that young adults experience stubbornly high levels of poverty and unemployment. An “economic recovery” that leaves more than half of young people struggling to meet basic expenses is not really a recovery.
This second set of data shows young people losing health insurance coverage at alarming rates and a persistent mental health crisis.
This third set, which focuses on safe communities, shows that criminalization and violence, not safety, define young people’s experiences in their communities -increasingly through AI and technology.
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