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Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care


  Author: Robert M. Goerge, Lucy Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee, Barbara Needell, Alan Brookhart, William Jackman
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Human Services Policy, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Document Date:                  March 2002
Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
Related Categories:
Children > Foster Home Care
Family Economics > Employment/Unemployment
Family Economics > Poverty
 

This report describes the employment outcomes of youth who left  foster care after their eighteenth birthday in California, Illinois, and South Carolina in the 1990s.  It examines their employment stability and earnings, and compares their outcomes to youth who were reunified with their parents prior to their eighteenth birthday and to youth from low-income families.  Overall it finds that youth who age out of foster care tend to be underemployed, earn low wages, and progress slowly in the labour market.

 

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