Teenage Jobs Wasteland

Forbes ^ | 7/2/2009 | Joshua Zumbrun

[television is just wrong]

I stand to lose my job. I work for a Boy Scouts of American Coumcil, donations are rock bottom. The Executives have done their jobs, people just don’t have the money. :( I really don’t want to be unemployed at my age and out looking for a job with this high rate of unemployment.

[Myrddin]

I remained "employed", but with no contracts converting my labor to income for the company from Nov 2008 until June 22, 2009. I burned over 200 hours of vacation keeping the household finances solvent. I'm now 930 miles from home. I have productive work and I'm no longer bleeding vacation hours to stay afloat. It's no picnic. The commute is 30 miles to work. I'm wasting 2 to 3 hours a day commuting vs working from my home office with a zero commute. The commute alone sucks $1200 per month to operate my vehicle. Food costs are higher as well. I'm allergic to something in the air in San Diego, so I have a perpetual sore throat. I'm looking forward to securing work that I can do in Idaho so I can return home.

[blueplum]

not only are they competing with illegals, if they are hired by a hispanic boss, they are hired at lower wages than their illegal coworkers, not to mention their coworkers speaking almost entirely in spanish amongst themselves, leaving the teen feeling isolated - Laraza motto: for us, everything, for them, nothing

[Timeout]

Am I reading this article correctly?

Kids who can’t find summer jobs are included in the unemployment numbers? How does that work? Do they get benefits?

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From the article:

For teenagers, the summer job market has not been so bleak in generations. During what should be the start of the bustling summer job season, the unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds who want work is 24%—the worst since 1965....

“The biggest problem [in the report] was that the summer job market for teenagers was nonexistent,” says Joel Naroff, of Naroff Economic Advisors, in a note. “The 24% unemployment rate for this group was the second-highest since the end of World War II. While teenagers comprise only 4% of the workforce, they made up over 22% of the increase in unemployment in June.”

[Pelham]

“Your solution, Pelham? Elect Obama. Right? How’s the HOPE and CHANGE working out for you?”

And this is what passes for logic among GOP-bots. Got stupidity, Rembrandt?

[Pelham]

Most neighboring states look good to them. I have friends who have moved on to Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. When they come back to visit they are shocked by the changes here. A lot of them left before the graffiti and gangs began wrecking the once pleasant suburbs.