March 27, 2007 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released findings on school enrollment and employment experiences today.  Data from the first 8 rounds of data for the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997, conducted for the BLS by NORC and the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at The Ohio State University, were analyzed by the BLS.

Read the press release at the BLS site: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/nlsyth.nr0.htm

Among the many interesting findings:

• Forty-one percent of high school dropouts and 22 percent of high school graduates not enrolled in college were neither employed nor in training during the October when they were 19.

• Nearly half of non-Hispanic black high school dropouts were not employed in either the October when they were 18 or the October when they were 19, compared with 22 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 30 percent of Hispanics.