Hope & Change. Young people love him.
Most of the teens who bothered to vote cast theirs for Obama. But then, they were largely following in the footsteps of their equally deluded elders and professors.
I notice that the first two people who comment on this article at Forbes both mention that illegal aliens are grabbing many jobs that would otherwise go to teens.
And they correctly blame Forbes for supporting that.
Teens have normally climbed the ladder from the bottom up. But those jobs are now taken largely by illegals.
I just scored a second job at a local Gelato shop - if I can get 2 jobs, these people can surely scare up one.
Teen jobs around here have been tough for a while. The car washes and most grocery store checkers and fast food counter people are all illegals (maybe that’s too harsh- but few are English-speakers).
Mayhap because the jobs normally taken by teens are now taken by older adults that have the ability to use basic math, have strong verbal skills and … yes, are reliable.
Don’t worry, teens. The coming increase in the minimum wage is going to boost entry-level hiring! All will be well.
My kids both took training as lifeguards. They had multiple job offers. Daughter is working as much as she wants, up to 70 hours a week; son has a more normal schedule.
Oh, and it's Bush's fault YAY.
Send the illegals home. Problem solved.
Minimum wage hikes wipe out entry level jobs.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.
But whatever it takes it is more than congress can muster...
I didn’t realize it had bumped up to 9.6.
Government has no authority, absent a declared national emergency, to set the price of labor in entry-level jobs; i.e., the minimum wage. If the market was allowed to set the price of entry-level labor, it might be easier for no-job-experience youth to find gainful employment.
But, sadly, the prnciple of government constrained by a written constitution has long been abandoned, declared null and of no effect.
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.”