Teens Not in School and Not Working Table 52. Teens Not in School and Not Working, Ages 16-19, <strong>Rhode</strong> <strong>Island</strong>, 2000 JOBLESS JOBLESS TOTAL NUMBER % OF TEENS TOTAL NUMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL OF JOBLESS TEENS WHO ARE JOBLESS CITY/TOWN TEENS AGES 16-19 GRADUATES DROPOUTS NOT IN SCHOOL & NOT IN SCHOOL Barrington 816 7 11 18 2.2% Bristol 1,701 0 23 23 1.4% Burrillville 980 3 14 17 1.7% Central Falls 1,082 66 112 178 16.5% Charlestown 320 0 0 0 0.0% Coventry 1,632 9 50 59 3.6% Cranston 4,233 304 329 633 15.0% Cumberland 1,449 67 28 95 6.6% East Greenwich 636 0 0 0 0.0% East Providence 2,068 75 55 130 6.3% Exeter 251 5 0 5 2.0% Foster 232 0 0 0 0.0% Glocester 551 5 10 15 2.7% Hopkinton 402 4 16 20 5.0% Jamestown 267 0 5 5 1.9% Johnston 1,080 33 17 50 4.6% Lincoln 974 0 26 26 2.7% Little Compton 175 0 16 16 9.1% Middletown 713 37 18 55 7.7% Narragansett 739 9 12 21 2.8% New Shoreham 26 0 0 0 0.0% Newport 1,740 31 100 131 7.5% North Kingstown 1,159 13 0 13 1.1% North Providence 1,262 22 38 60 4.8% North Smithfield 494 0 0 0 0.0% Pawtucket 3,684 203 292 495 13.4% Portsmouth 736 0 12 12 1.6% Providence 15,673 420 1,138 1,558 9.9% Richmond 326 16 0 16 4.9% Scituate 604 44 17 61 10.1% Smithfield 1,904 11 11 22 1.2% South Kingstown 3,532 8 11 19 0.5% Tiverton 769 23 22 45 5.9% Warren 507 33 33 66 13.0% Warwick 3,843 60 130 190 4.9% West Greenwich 300 0 0 0 0.0% West Warwick 1,341 47 73 120 8.9% Westerly 1,029 24 23 47 4.6% Woonsocket 2,179 75 181 256 11.7% Core Cities 25,699 842 1,896 2,738 10.7% Remainder of State 35,710 812 927 1,739 4.9% <strong>Rhode</strong> <strong>Island</strong> 61,409 1,654 2,823 4,477 7.3% Sources of Data for Table/Methodology U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000. Core cities are Central Falls, Newport, Pawtucket, Providence, West Warwick and Woonsocket. The denominator is the number of teens ages 16 to 19 according to the 2000 U.S. Census. References 1,7 Shore, R. & Shore, B. (2009). KIDS COUNT indicator brief: Reducing the number of disconnected youth. Baltimore, MD: The Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2,3,6 Hair, E. C., Moore, K. A., Ling, T. J., McPhee-Baker, C. & Brown, B. V. (2009). Youth who are "disconnected" and those who then reconnect: Assessing the influence of family, programs, peers and communities. Washington, DC: Child Trends. 4 Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. (2009). America’s children: Key national indicators of well-being, 2009. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 5,11 Fernandes, A. L., & Gabe, T. (2009). Disconnected youth: A look at 16-24 year olds who are not working or in school. Congressional Research Service. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 8,15 MDC, Inc. (2008). Disconnected youth in the research triangle region: An ominous problem hidden in plain sight. Raleigh, NC: GlaxoSmithKline Foundation. 9 Vericker, T., Pergamit, M., Macomber, J., & Kuehn, D. (2009). Vulnerable youth and the transition to adulthood: Second-generation Latinos connecting to school and work. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Human Services Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, DC: Government Printing Offices. 10 U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2006-2008. Table B14005. 12 Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT Data Center. (<strong>2010</strong>). Rankings/Maps/Trends by Topic: Teens not attending school and not working by race (Percent) – 2008. Retrieved January 6, <strong>2010</strong> from www.kidscount.org/datacenter (continued on page 172) <strong>2010</strong> <strong>Rhode</strong> <strong>Island</strong> KIDS COUNT <strong>Factbook</strong> 155
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