Posted on 07/19/2015 7:54:58 AM PDT by GoneSalt
American teen employment has dropped 20 percent from the late 1980s, in part because more and more immigrants have flooded into the market to displace native-born kids from jobs in percentages far higher than on adults, according to the Federal Reserve.
"The displacement effect of immigration on the employment of younger persons is much larger than on the employment of prime-age adults," said the September 2014 report, "Labor Force Participation: Recent Developments and Future Prospects."
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They needed to do a study on that? Idiots.
When I was growing up all of us teenage boys worked on farms.
Ask an American kid to do it these days they’ll just chuckle at the absurdity of it and go back to playing with their phone.
These immigrant kids—Are they legal or illegal?
Wait a minute!
Doesn’t this support everything Donald Trump has been saying? Could it be that The Donald has a point, and his point has nothing to do with racism?
You mean that of the miniscule amount of jobs available anyway, illegals (and we know they mean illegals) are stealing those too?
Were McCain, Rubio, and Bush lying about this, or are the Fed’s numbers incorrect?
Then that’s the parent’s fault.
When I was growing up all of us teenage boys worked on farms.
Ask an American kid to do it these days they’ll just chuckle at the absurdity of it and go back to playing with their phone.
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My recent experience with this is trying to find a kid to mow my yard, while I’m temporarily unable to do it. They are nowhere to be found. Finally my 40 year old son took time away from his 60-80 hour a week job and mowed it for me.
This has been going on a lot longer than they’re leading on. I have a 23 year old who has struggled for YEARS trying to get hired into jobs in our community .... And I feel It’s had a huge negative effect on his life. For one he has less of a work ethic because of it .... And he lacks experience on his resume. It really was not for a lack of trying. Over the years he’s spent days on end applying for jobs, never to be called. He’d go back to the same establishments only to see them having hired gobs of immigrants .... He works now, but only part time.
He’s had a tough time in college also. I know this kid of mine is and always probably would have been a bit of a slacker .... But in former times, he would have rebounded a bit .... Now there’s no room for that .... Only the very toughest go getter type kids can survive this .... Illegals suck up the low wage jobs and the just stay in them, earning all that low wage pay so they can sign up for welfare on top of it. So sick of seeing their faces everywhere I go.
Martin Luther King came North as a student-—to work on a Connecticut tobacco farm.... w/ black and white kids.
MLK wrote in his auto bio and in letters home that he was amazed that he went to the finest restaurants, sat in the same pews and rode public transportation w/ white people.
It when he was going home....when he rode the train to Washington DC that he had to get into the Jim Crow cars w/ blacks only.
Was that episode the genesis of his famous “I have a Dream” speech?
Now who allowed those facts to slip through? Some heads might explode if this keeps up. Trump should be on this very soon.
Typical socialist fixed pie ideology — there’s a fixed pied of jobs that must be divided-up between the native born and the immigrants, and only government can be trusted to do the division. It shows up in many other forms — fixed pie of housing, fixed pie of doctors, fixed pie of energy resources, and a fixed pie of anything else that government wants to control.
Not sure what the reason is. Where I live, there are several adults who do full time lawn work. I see them often with their pickups and trailers loaded with lawn care equipment. It seems to have become an adult occupation, unlike years ago.
At first I thought they were "displacing" American kids, but then it occurred to me that those industries probably wouldn't exist if they hired young Americans to do that summer work ... because they relied on those young Americans as their customers.
I used to check in at the farm every day even when they generally didn’t need anyone to bail hay or pick rocks. They almost always found work for me to do, mowing grass, painting, running errands, feeding calves etc.
No, I think think this one is called supply and demand, and in this case the supply of labor significantly exceeds the demand due to immigration, legal and illegal.
A couple years ago there was a mall area where a man reported his “Sale” banner missing, illegals were using it as a dropcloth to paint a store around the corner.
I know contractors begging on craigslist for work, between the economy and illegals underbidding, they’re going into other lines of work. Like turnkey maintenance of all these empty houses banks own, that’s a regular ad.
On one of our family trips to Alabama from California I gave my parents a good laugh because I checked out the “colored” water fountain to see what color the water was. Then there was the time we had given a ride to a black woman friend to visit her family in that area and when we checked into a motel we were told that “our maid” had to sleep in the car.
I feel sorry for the kids today, illegals and poor adults have just about wiped out jobs the kids used to do. Here in my little fishing village in E. Texas teens can get summer work as a deck hand on a shrimp boat. The work is hard, but paid is good if there are shrimp to be caught.
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