No one wants to see millions of young people sitting idle. So what can be done? Can policies and programs be created to channel them into full-time jobs?

Those questions are entangled in certain truths about the political process. Teachers have the American Federation of Teachers. Gun owners have the N.R.A. The older population has AARP. But where are the advocacy groups for jobless youth?

They are coming. Two movements have sprouted to fight for this generation’s right to move out of the parental basement (or avoid it altogether): the Campaign for Young America and Fix Young America:

http://campaignforyoungamerica.org/
http://fixyoungamerica.com/