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FOOTNOTES

1 Jenny Marlar, “Worldwide, Young Adults Twice as Likely to Be Unemployed,” Gallup, April 27, 2011, http://www.gallup.com/poll/147281/worldwide-young-adults-twice-likely-unemployed.aspx.

2 Paul Taylor, et al., Young, Underemployed and Optimistic: Coming of Age, Slowly, in a Tough Economy, Pew Research Center, (Pew Social & Demographic Trends, February 9, 2012), 6, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2012/02/SDT-Youth-and-Economy.pdf.

3 Data is from YEC and Buzz Marketing Group’s annual youth entrepreneurship survey of over 1600 American males and females ages 16-39.

4 Scott Gerber, “Why We Should Help Veterans Start Their Own Businesses,” Time.com, February 7, 2012, http://business.time.com/2012/02/07/why-we-should-help-veterans-start-their-own-businesses/.

5 YEC and Buzz Marketing Group survey.

6 The Aspen Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group, Youth Entrepreneurship Education in America: A Policymaker’s Action Guide, (The Aspen Institute, 2008), 5-6, http://www.americaspromise.org/~/media/Files/

Resources/NFTE%20-%20policymakers_action_guide_2008.ashx.

7 The Conference Board, et al., Are They Really Ready to Work? Employer’s Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce, (2006), 9-10, http:// www.p21.org/storage/documents/FINAL_REPORT_PDF09-29-06.pdf.

8 Richard Dobbs, James Manyika and Charles Roxburgh, “What business can do to restart growth,” McKinsey & Company, September 2011, http://www.mckinsey.com/Features/Growth/ What_business_can_do_to_restart_growth.

9 “Income-Based Repayment Plan,” Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education, last modifi ed December 7, 2011, http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/IBRPlan.jsp.

10 Veterans Entrepreneurial Transition Act of 2011, H.R. 3167, 112th Congress, (2011).

11 YEC and Buzz Marketing Group survey.

12 2012 Franchise Business Economic Outlook, prepared by IHS Global Insight for the International Franchise Association, January 2012, 1, http://emarket.franchise.org/EconOutlookFactSheetfi nal.pdf.

13 The Importance of Startups in Job Creation and Destruction, (Kauff man Foundation, July 2010), 2, http://www.kauff man.org/uploadedfi les/firm_formation_importance_of_startups.pdf.

14 Global Youth Entrepreneur Survey 2011, (The Prince’s Youth Business International, 2011), 8, http://www.youthbusiness.org/pdf/YouthEntrepreneurshipSurvey2011.pdf.

15 Matthieu Pélissié du Rausas, et al., “Internet matters: The Net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity,” McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011, http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Internet_matters.

16 Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook 2010-11 Edition, “Computer Software Engineers and Computer Programmers,” last modified December 17, 2009, http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm.