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In the United States, there are more than 4.5 million Opportunity Youth—young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or the workforce. It’s time to unleash our potential. Here are some key resources to understand the issues and the solutions.

The Opportunity Index: What’s Your Score?

Understand national trends and find out how your state and county measure up on four key indicators of opportunity

Bridge to Reconnection

Produced by Civic Enterprises, this report offers comprehensive data and a roadmap for reconnecting one million opportunity youth each year through federal funding streams. Its research forms the basis of the collaborative Reconnecting Youth Campaign.

Measure of America: Youth Disconnection Interactive Tool

There’s a problem with our conception of progress in America today. It’s based on money measures and not much else. Measure of America creates metrics to tell us about how people are doing. One fundamental indicator of societal progress and well-being is how young people are faring in their transition to adulthood. And on this measure, 4.8 million young people are falling behind. Learn more on the Measure of America
site.

The Opportunity Atlas

Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty? The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. It lets you trace the roots of today’s affluence and poverty back to the neighborhoods where people grew up, and helps you develop local solutions to ensure more children rise out of poverty.

Opportunity Insights

Based at Harvard University, Opportunity Insights brings together researchers and policy analysts to collect and translate “big data” for to help local efforts to improve upward mobility, scale solutions and inform policy change to improve opportunity for all.