Employment Success RESOURCES

An Overview of Workforce Development Programs - Ohio State University Extension

The following article is from the  OSU EXTENSION URBAN PROGRAMS UPDATE
-- September 2007

 Archives of previous updates at: http://woostercenter.osu.edu/joe/extension-urban-program-updates

Attracting Young Urban Residents

“The immediate challenge for cities is to attract young, college-educated workers who, more than any previous generation, have greater mobility, and they use it, moving to cities with the assets, ethos and opportunities that they seek. In understanding these young, educated workers, cities have their best chance of succeeding in the most competitive economic environment in history.”
 
Joe Cortwright in Young and Restless in a Knowledge Economy, notes that these youths are:

• the most mobile.

• the most entrepreneurial

• well educated with women in this age group are better educated than men,

• interested in “place” and “are being disproportionately drawn to certain cities, and once in them, they are more likely to choose vibrant, close-in neighborhoods than other Americans.”

The entire report, Young and Restless in a Knowledge Economy, by Joe Cortright, CEOs for Cities, December 2005 can be downloaded at: http://www.ceosforcities.org/rethink/research/files/CEOs_YNR_FINAL.pdf