America's School-to-Work Crisis

The Schultz Family Foundation partnered with HarrisX to conduct a sweeping, national survey to better understand the barriers, needs, and opportunities facing young people in the United States aged 16 to 24 as they navigate from high school to careers, recognizing that this journey is often critical in shaping a person’s economic mobility.

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Diagnosing a Generational Misalignment

America’s youth strive for personal and professional success, but many struggle along broken pathways from high school into the job market because the people and institutions meant to support them are fundamentally out of sync.  

Parents want to help,
but rely on an outdated playbook.

‍Navigators and Educators see the problem,
but lack innovative and effective solutions.
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Employers require experience for first jobs,
but don’t offer ways to gain it.

‍The Broken Marketplace Study is based on insights from detailed interviews with more than 5,700 young adults, parents, navigators and educators, and employers.

The Fractures in the Marketplace

Hover to explore examples of the misaligned expectations and critical disconnects among navigators and educators, parents, employers and young people. See how everyone is caught in a finger-pointing loop, each expecting the other to fill the gap.

Methodology

Drawing on insights from more than 5,700 qualitative and quantitative interviews with young adults (ages 16-24), parents, educators, and employers, the Broken Marketplace Study reveals deep misalignments in guidance, expectations, and access to opportunity. Together, these disconnects are stalling the futures of tens of millions of young Americans.
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Our Partner: Schultz Family Foundation

The Schultz Family Foundation’s mission is to create greater opportunity, accessible to all. Our work is deeply rooted in the lives and values of our co-founders, Sheri and Howard Schultz, who believe talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. We seek to apply the lessons they have learned over the decades to seed innovations and scale solutions to help young people successfully navigate the transition to adulthood and positively impact the trajectory of their lives. We are investors in unleashing potential and unlocking opportunity, working in partnership with employers, entrepreneurs, non-profits, and governments that share our aspiration of enabling everyone to access the full promise of America.

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