Advice for Young, Unemployed Workers

The United States has one of the world's highest rates of unemployment among 20 to 26-year-olds. Nearly half of the U.S. army of unemployed is under the age of 34. As for those who are hired, there is a huge gap between wage expectations and paycheck realities, which is exactly what you would expect in a post-boom world.  


The rising generation faces challenges unlike any that most people alive have seen. This situation requires new adaptive strategies. Jeffrey Tucker’s “Advice for Young, Unemployed Workers” addresses these challenges in concise, compelling ways that are immediately actionable by those who intend to blaze their own trail in life.


Jeffrey A. Tucker is Director of Digital Development for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). He is also Chief Liberty Officer and founder of Liberty.me, the global liberty community with advanced social and publishing features, executive editor of Laissez Faire Books, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, member of the editorial board of the Molinari Review, an advisor to the blockchain application builder Factom, and author of five books. He has written 150 introductions to books and many thousands of articles appearing in the scholarly and popular press. His latest book is Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World.


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