OTHER NEWS - Nov. 26, 1991

Job Losses Hit Young Workers the Hardest: Many of the nation’s 1.2-million recession-induced job losses have hit workers under age 25, threatening to push the child poverty rate higher, according to a children’s advocacy group. Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 accounted for more than 1 million of the jobs lost since the recession began in July, 1990, said a study released by the Children’s Defense Fund. The findings “confirm a new era . . . in which disproportionate economic pain falls on the youngest and most vulnerable Americans,” said the study, which reviewed Bureau of Labor Statistics data with the help of the Northeastern University Center for Labor Market Studies.