Downstream
High Unemployment and Underemployment
Too few quality jobs relative to entrants—especially for youth—and widespread under-use of skills.
Unemployment and underemployment persist when too many workers enter the market each year for the quality jobs being created.
What keeps this stuck
- Jobless or job-light service-led growth
- Disguised unemployment in agriculture
- Degree inflation without matching market skills
- Demographic surge — millions joining the workforce annually
- Precarious gig labor replacing stable contracts
Is this a root problem worth fixing first?
How this connects
Where this problem sits in the causal graph — what feeds it, and what it feeds.
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