There are plenty of jobs. I can’t even get kids to do yard work for $10 an hour.
Funny, last time I put out an ad for a few hours of crappy, unpleasant work at $10/hour I got well over a hundred responses, most from adults, many of whom had children to support.
Either you live in the one place in America which isn’t suffering Great Depression conditions or you’re not looking too hard for help.