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Failure to Launch: A Troubled Transition to Grown-up Life

Failure to Launch: A Troubled Transition to Grown-up Life
Young demonstrators participate in Occupy Toronto protests, Oct. 15, 2011. In recent years, accumulating debt, delayed careers, lagging incomes and zero savings have crushed the 18 to 24 set. Photo: arindambanerjee / Shutterstock.com.

From an outsider looking in, the path from adolescence to adulthood seems obvious. Yet by age 25, many B.C. youth are still floundering, without a high school diploma, without any completed postsecondary, and without a job that will support themselves, let alone a family.

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When Family Fails, Schools Can Do More to Care for Youth

When Family Fails, Schools Can Do More to Care for Youth

Four ways to help at-risk students thrive in the classroom. Third in a series.

Pieta Woolley / 11 Sep 2013


Lost: Low-skill, Decent-pay, 'Entry' Jobs

Lost: Low-skill, Decent-pay, 'Entry' Jobs

Seven sectors that once put youth to work have withered, making it tough for today's cohort to lift-off. Second in a series.

Pieta Woolley / 10 Sep 2013


Can Public Service Kickstart Canada's Young and Jobless?

Can Public Service Kickstart Canada's Young and Jobless?

First in a new series on solutions for a nation's generational failure-to-launch.

Pieta Woolley / 9 Sep 2013


Why Efforts to 'Fix' Floundering Youth Fail

Why Efforts to 'Fix' Floundering Youth Fail

Assumptions about unemployment and street involvement can undermine our attempts to help. Fourth in a series.

Pieta Woolley / 12 Sep 2013


McJobs, a Launch Pad for Young Workers

McJobs, a Launch Pad for Young Workers

Employees of a BC burger joint share hopes, fears and life lessons. Last in a series.

Pieta Woolley / 13 Sep 2013