Generation T.B.D.

Why Bosnia has the world's highest youth unemployment rate

Twenty years after the war's end, ethnic divisions and a corrupt bureaucracy stifle the country's growth and drive youth to leave.

South Africa's township youth see apartheid's legacy all around them

With a youth unemployment rate above 50 percent, the 21-year-old democracy is having trouble escaping its past.

An Instagram photo by Pracheta Sharma, reporting with Gayathri Vaidyanathan in Punjab, India as part of the Generation TBD reporting fellowship on youth unemployment. 

Manjinder Singh, 28, got "garib"(poor) tattooed on his hand, when he couldn't find a job for 2 years and lost all hope of finding one at all. 

Nigeria is now Africa's largest economy but government corruption and incompetence make life "impossible" for millions. Young people like Mr. Jobs are working to create possibilities.

Ken Bowman joins the line for a free lunch in the Youngstown Salvation Army canteen, just like he does every Friday.

Looking younger than his 21 years, his hair dyed jet black and wearing big, battered boots, Bowman plays heavy metal on his cell phone. He chooses a seat at the end of a table and sits hunched over his tray, his blues eyes furtively sweeping the room. The others sit in packs, regulars who've formed lunchtime friendships over their burnt coffee and peppered corn, discussing the jobs they once had and the government benefits they no longer get.

Read the story and see the images by Generation TBD’s Iran fellows.

Photos by Maryam Rahmanian, writing by Yeganeh Salehi

"Iran’s population has doubled since its 1979 revolution, but the number of university students in the country has increased more than 25 times to over 4.5 million people."

"This month, for example, the GroundTruth Project, which trains young reporters as international correspondents, launched a project called “Generation TBD: Despair and opportunity for millennials in an uncertain global economy.” It will deploy 21 reporting fellows in 11 countries to dig into an issue legacy media has, at times, treated like a joke—the place of millennials in the economy today.

Although GroundTruth Project isn’t explicitly targeted towards any generation, it is distinctively millennial in its desire to make a difference in the world."

Read the story and see the images by Generation TBD's Egypt fellows.

Food for thought, folks. RT @voxdotcom 12 ways to fix the youth unemployment crisis http://t.co/vMzEaCrAhe #GenTBD

A fog of mosquito repellent at a shelter site in Leyte where hundreds of people displaced by #Haiyan live. #GenTBD pic.twitter.com/kA3nPgj55F