One year ago, serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber, a prolific columnist on youth entrepreneurship and author of Never Get a Real Job, established The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to promote entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment and underemployment. Like an Ivy League University for the real world, YEC provides its invite only member list–300 of the nation’s best and brightest entrepreneurs– with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of a business’s development and growth.
YEC has partnered with the Young Invincibles, along with a coalition of many top colleges and organizations in the US, to support a new legislative effort entitled the Youth Entrepreneurship Act, which would offer young people more access to micro-loans, increased grants for entrepreneurship education programs and enact a student loan forgiveness program for young entrepreneurs who build businesses and create jobs.
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