Posted on 04/14/2015 9:31:03 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
If the raccoon coat-wearing youth of the 1920s really were the lost generation, what would you call millennials? Generation Opportunity, “a national, non-partisan youth advocacy organization,” crunched the employment and unemployment data for March in its Millennial Jobs Report for March 2015” and found that:
• “The effective (U-6) unemployment rate for 18-29-year-olds, which adjusts for labor force participation by including those who have given up looking for work, is 13.9 percent (NSA). The (U-3) unemployment rate for 18-29 year olds is 9.1 percent (NSA).
• “The declining labor force participation rate has created an additional 1.842 million young adults that are not counted as “unemployed” by the U.S. Department of Labor because they are not in the labor force, meaning that those young people have given up looking for work due to the lack of jobs.
• “The effective (U-6) unemployment rate for 18-29-year-old African-Americans is 20.2 percent (NSA); the (U-3) unemployment rate is 16 percent (NSA).
• “The effective (U-6) unemployment rate for 18-29-year-old Hispanics is 14.3 percent (NSA); the (U-3) unemployment rate is 9.4 percent (NSA).
• “The effective (U-6) unemployment rate for 18-29-year-old women is 11.8 percent (NSA); the (U-3) unemployment rate is 8.1 percent (NSA).”
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This never gets better. We’re still being over-run by invaders. Because savings aren’t accumulating for those with jobs, most will not leave the workforce to retire until they’re forced to do so, so that’s jobs not opening up. An unbelievable percentage of the US population cannot financially survive any kind of crisis. One wonders how much of the US population is living in near third-world status, with total dependency on the government.
Maybe you should instead advertise for an expert on Xbox.
Rather than generation millennial, should be called generation coddled.
Government and parents have combined to protect an entire generation from failure, with the end-result being a bunch of clueless, inept and self-indulgent youngsters without the foggiest idea of how the real world works.
For better or worse, this kind of thing tends to be self-correcting in the long run. In the short term, it’s very hard on individuals.
The millennial generation is the “GimmeDat” generation as proven by the fact that they elected someone who’s policies have failed for 4 years to another 4 year term thinking that he would give them lost of free stuff
They never learn. I remember reading a newspaper letter to the editor back in 1969 from a graduate of North Texas State in Denton, Texas. He was complaining that after getting a degree in history, he couldn’t get a job because they didn’t even teach him how to type.
Because as goofy as they may have seemed to be ... they were Americans because their schools, churches, and societies were also .. American.
What's bizarre is that anyone outside the top 25% (or so academically) of the population should be going to college.
that’s a good point. Come to think of it, Reagan was a teenager in the 1920s
and working his way through college, something nobody seems to do anymore.
Actually, those 20s kids WERE the ones you fought WWII.
LOL!
and working his way through college, something nobody seems to do anymore
Actually my friend and I (both have college kids) were complaining about this last night. No one will hire good, smart, college kids with a work ethic. All of our kids apply to numerous places that theoretically should be snapping these kinds of kids up, but apparently don’t want to take a chance hiring and training kids that might not be there long term because of school. You go back and they have hired some tatted-up freak that ends up quitting in an endless cycle of turnover. Our kids are well-spoken, WANT to work, are willing to work over breaks holidays, come back every summer- but nothing, no calls back or just out right rejection. It is really frustrating for us- and them!
Forty percent of male high school grads don't go to college. If they aren't learning a trade, what are they doing? Too many boys (and, to a lesser extent, girls) live at home after high school and, at best, work in a series of dead-end jobs.
Nope ... would’a been in their 40’s ... it is their kids
Another view is that they were the generations that destroyed us.
The years of government and legislation from 1935 through 1975, doomed America.
“the trades are sufferring right now because many of the people who used to go to trade schools are now being pushed into college.”
A young electrician (maybe 27 and apprenticing with a talented man in his late-60’s) was at my house 2 weeks ago and pulled the face off the main breaker box to exchange an old breaker in my original 1968 panel.
When he set the cover down he and I stared at the original electrician’s work in silent regard for about a minute before that guy said, “THAT’S what I want to be.” There wasn’t a wire out of place and it was all in neat rows. It was perfect. Almost beautiful.
If you understand what I am trying to write here then you understand what we’ve mostly lost: Craftsmen. True craftsmen.
We very much need to break the mental stigma associated with working a Trade.
And it’s not just the top 25% who should go to college. Anyone in that top 25% should feel proud taking on a trade as well.
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