Youth Employment

Since the first group of “job seekers,” STL Youth Jobs has gone from finding employment for 200 area youth in 2013 — to 800 in 2019.

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St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay is touting progress in the city's efforts to employ teenagers and young adults over the summer.STL Youth Jobs launched nearly…

“We’re supposed to have 520 students in here, but we have just half of that,” said Redford Salmon, director of the St. Louis Job Corps Center. “I don’t…

A former Democratic campaign manager is partnering with a Greendale resident to start a new non-profit in Ferguson called Communities in Unity.Damion…

When large numbers of young people are unemployed, it is not only a blow to the individuals, it is also a missed economic opportunity for the region. That…

The global manufacturing company Emerson is upping its investment in the Ferguson community to show "renewed commitment" to the place it has been…

Sweet potatoes planted by St. Louis teens now have their own plot in the Missouri Botanical Garden.Young members of an effort called the Sweet Potato…

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay is asking businesses in the city to help put 500 young people to work this summer through a program called Stl Youth Jobs.One…

If you’re in your late teens or early twenties, here’s some news you might already know: Employment rates for those age categories plummeted in the U.S.…