Job fair targeting 16-to-24-year-olds in Phoenix set for Oct. 30 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, U.S. effort to hire "opportunity youth" - 16- to 24-year-olds who are not in school or are not employed - comes to Phoenix. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1KqX72c Phoenix is the next stop for the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, a nationwide effort to hire 100,000 of America's "opportunity youth" - 16- to 24-year-olds who are not in school or are not employed - by 2018.