[ilovesarah2012]

Not just black - anyone with no high school diploma and a criminal record isn’t very employable.

[TSgt]

Not just black - anyone with no high school diploma and a criminal record isn’t very employable.

Agreed 100% hence Life Decisions = Consequences

[kabar]

We bring in 1.2 million legal immigrants a year with more than a third without a high school diploma. Most are poor, uneducated, and unskilled. They are taking the jobs of all Americans, especially blacks and teenagers.

Looking at change over time shows that in the 10 states where immigrants increased the most as a share of workers, labor force participation of U.S.-born teenagers declined 17 percentage points. In the 10 states where immigrants increased the least, teen labor force participation declined 9 percent.

The number of U.S.-born teenagers not in the labor force increased from 4.7 million in 1994 to 8.1 million in 2007. In the summer of 2009 it stood at 8.8 million.

The severity of the decline is similar for U.S.-born black, Hispanic, and white teens. Between 1994 and 2007 the summer labor force participation of black teens declined from 50 to 35 percent; for Hispanic teens from 52 to 37 percent; and for whites it declined 69 to 55 percent.