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How We Can Prepare Young People for Meaningful Work and Flourishing Lives, by Rachel Greszler – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

How We Can Prepare Young People for Meaningful Work and Flourishing Lives, by Rachel Greszler

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By Rachel Greszler, The Daily Signal, September 29, 2025

Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.

 

Portrait of Rachel GreszlerBy 2034, there will be more seniors than children for the first time in our country’s history. Meanwhile, the federal debt has exploded and will be the equivalent of a second mortgage for today’s youth.

Young people, in turn, will be called on to produce more to support an aging population and will be forced to pay more to cover past and current government largess.

Even more troubling, millions of young Americans are drifting without the skills, discipline, and opportunities they need to succeed.

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Twenty-five years ago, the majority of young Americans were working. Today, fewer than half of those ages 16-24 are employed. That’s a gap of 4.5 million young people who are not gaining the formative lessons that come from first jobs. …

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