NEWS FLASH

One Unemployed Youth Costs Taxpayers $14,000 Each Year | According to work done by researchers from Columbia University and the City University of New York, each unemployed youth — someone between the ages of 16 and 24 who is in neither work nor school — costs taxpayers nearly $14,000 dollars per year in direct costs for things like medical bills and government aid, while ultimately creating a “social burden” of more than $37,000 annually (when accounting for the costs of crime and lost tax revenue). As the Atlantic’s Jordan Weissmann noted, the current generation of unemployed youth “will cost taxpayers $437 billion over the next five years, and $1.15 trillion over the course of their lifetime.”