[DB]

The issue is minimum wage.

Employers don't want to hire people without any experience for $6.75 an hour (or more than $70 a day with payroll taxes).

There was a time employers could afford to train kids and give them a chance to grow into the job while gaining work experience.

[Havoc]

I haven't seen a problem with minimum wage around this town.
Places have hired to their capacity. There are just fewer places now that jobs have been exported. Fewer places to work combined with larger population = some go without work. Sky doesn't have to be falling for that to be so. Some would just rather use such rhetoric to paint a rosier picture of things for us all. Kindof a Mr. Rogers "let's make believe" version of the world where all is rosey because Pubs are in office. Not much different from the dim approach.

[DoughtyOne]

I believe we're mostly talking about high school or college age kids who want summer employment. The article did touch on the issue of more dropouts though. That would be permanent low skill jobs.

Try as we might, we are never going to produce 100% college degreed adults. That being the case, we must maintain low skill jobs in the nation for citizens.

The alternative is to have high crime and more people on welfare. In both instances, this will cause a drain on those who do have degrees, as they pay more and more for those who don't.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Minimum-wage laws simply do not work and have the opposite effect.