Featured Work
DATA2GO.NYC
DATA2GO.NYC is a free, interactive tool that lets you explore over 400 indicators related to human well-being and inequality across New York City's nearly 200 neighborhoods.
Broad Recovery, Persistent Inequity: Youth Disconnection in America
Broad Recovery, Persistent Inequity presents 2022 youth disconnection rates for the United States as a whole as well as by gender, race and ethnicity, region, state, metro area, and congressional district.
A Portrait of Newark
A Portrait of Newark is an extensive study of well-being across race, place, and gender, and youth disconnection across Newark, New Jersey.
Youth Disconnection Interactive Tool
Millions of young people in the United States are neither working nor in school. Explore the latest youth disconnection data for yourself in this interactive tool.
Human Development
Our Latest News and Events
Powering Potential: Plugging In Louisiana’s Opportunity Youth
" However, nationally, nearly 70% of institutionalized young people were disconnected in 2021, a rate over six times that of overall youth, suggesting that youth institutions in Louisiana also disproportionately house Opportunity Youth."
Louisiana Opportunity Youth Alliance | November 1, 2025Half a million young Californians aren’t in school or work. Most are men
"Of the roughly 4.6 million Californians between the ages of 16 and 24, more than 10% are considered disconnected, meaning they’re neither working nor in school, according to Kristen Lewis, the director of the research organization Measure of America. The majority are men, and Black and Native American men have higher rates."
CalMatters | October 29, 2025
