of U.S. teens ages 16 to 19 were unemployed.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
2009
The Casey Foundation’s investments in its Making Connections White Center/ Seattle site are demonstrating how to combat poverty and creat opportunity by by strengthening capacity to connect families in this community—home to more than 30,000 residents, including African American and multiple Asian, Hispanic, African, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander immigrant families—to jobs, assets, quality early education, and opportunities for civic engagement and leadership.