[1] State of the St. Louis Workforce stlcc.edu/STLworkforce
[2] Deloitte 2018 skills gap in manufacturing study https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/manufacturing/articles/future-of-manufacturing-skills-gap-study.html
[3] Youth disconnection by metro area https://measureofamerica.org/DYinteractive/#Metro
[4] Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin, and Rachel Rosen, The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth (Corporation for Economic and Community Service and the White House Council for Community Solutions, 2012); available at: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED528650.pdf
[1] Christine Vestal, Tracking the recession: Stimulus helps revive summer youth jobs programs, http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=411651
[2] Andrew Sum et al, Confronting the Youth Demographic Challenge
[3] Jacob Leos-Urbel, What Is a Summer Job Worth? The Impact of Summer Youth Employment on Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Lottery, Working Paper #05-12, New York University, June 2012; available at: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/spa2/Working_Paper_5-12.pdf
[4] http://www.rootcause.org/docs/Resources/Research/Youth-Career-Development/Youth%20Career%20Development-%20Social%20Issue%20Report.pdf
[5] Child & Youth Finance International and Mastercard – “Banking a New Generation”
[6] Mastercard Report
[7] Youth Violence Prevention Funder Learning Collaborative
[8] 2014 UMSL Evaluation report of STL Youth Jobs Program
[9] Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin, and Rachel Rosen, The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth (Corporation for Economic and Community Service and the White House Council for Community Solutions, 2012); available at: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED528650.pdf