Employment of School-Age Youth.

Increasing proportions of young people are remaining in high school and college, and more of the students are in the work force. Thirty-one percent of the 16to 24-year-olds working or looking for work were enrolled in school in October 1971, compared with 22 percent a decade earlier, thirty-five percent of young whites and 23 percent of young Negroes in the labor force were in school.2 In the last 2 years, school enrollment rates of men 18 to 21 years old declined from 54 percent to 48 percent in 1971, probably because of developments related to the Vietnam war. Enrollment rates had