Gallup studies show 27 percent of high school students take an entrepreneurial business course and 35 percent take an economics course in high school. Forty-four percent of students think it is very important and 33 percent think it is important to teach entrepreneurship in schools.
Gallup studies show seven out of 10 high school students want to start their own companies. Six in 10 females, seven in 10 Hispanic and eight in 10 African American high school students are interested in starting a business.
Source: Seeds of Success, Entrepreneurship and Youth, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
In October 2000, unemployment for people in their 20s was 5 percent—only 1.4 percentage points higher than the overall rate of 3.6 percent.
Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer |
