New Mexico is 2020’s State with the 6th Most At-Risk Youth – WalletHub Study

With about one in nine young Americans today neither working nor in school, exposing them to greater risk of poverty and violence, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2020’s States with the Most At-Risk Youth, as well as accompanying videos.

To determine where young Americans are not faring as well as others in their age group, especially in a year made extremely stressful by the COVID-19 pandemic, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 16 key indicators of youth risk. The data set ranges from share of disconnected youth to labor force participation rate among youth to youth poverty rate.

At-Risk Youth in New Mexico (1=Most at Risk; 25=Avg.):

• 2^nd – % of Disconnected Youth
• 1^st – % of Youth Without a High School Diploma
• 10^th – % of Overweight & Obese Youth
• 19^th – % of Youth Drug Users
• 19^th – Youth Labor Force Participation Rate
• 13^th – Youth Poverty Rate
• 15^th – % of Homeless Youth

For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-most-at-risk-youth/37280/

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