Top 5 / Bottom 5 Metro Areas for Youth Employment in 2012

In a new report and interactive released today, “The Plummeting Labor Market Fortunes of Teens and Young Adults,” researchers from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program examine data for the employment prospects of teens and young adults in the nation’s top 100 metropolitan areas. Here are tables that summarize just some of the data available and used in the interactive, which you can use to look up different rates for each of the 100 metro areas, as well as other indicators for each location.