Quisling: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.
Posted on 08/07/2005 9:29:40 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Teen jobs & illegals
Monday, August 8, 2005
It's been a long, hot summer for young people unable to find jobs this year as teen employment dips to its lowest level ever. And this, despite 20 months of job growth nationwide. So, where are the teen jobs?
Some are being taken by older folks looking to supplement retirement savings. Some are being taken by 20-somethings who didn't land employment in their chosen fields. But more so than ever before, jobs are being snatched up by low-paid, undocumented immigrants for whom employers don't pay taxes...SNIP
That's one of the findings by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. Director Andrew Sum says he's never seen anything like it.
According to Bureau of Labor statistics, businesses hired 3.7 million immigrants over the past five years; about half to 60 percent were illegal immigrants.
In New York, some 336,000 employees report working in jobs that businesses say don't exist..SNIP
Not only are teens being squeezed out of summer employment, they're losing a valuable line on their resumes -- work experience -- which helps them secure future employment.
The answer, once again, is enforcement of existing immigration laws. Teens willing to earn their way in the working world shouldn't have to compete against illegal immigrants -- who shouldn't be working here in the first place.
© 2004 by The Tribune-Review Publishing Co.
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Hey bleeding heart liberals...save the children (your mantra) and their summer jobs...seal the borders now.
Hey,don't tread on me! ( just kidding!) ;)
BTTT
My teen has to register at the high school for a work permit, they only allow so many hours and all kinds of regulations.
Why would any employer want to hire a teen when they can get an adult at slave full time, no regulations, and for many no taxes to be paid as it is all under the table?
I would care to guess that teen unemployment was low in the south before the civil war too, and the funny thing is, that our side was have to of supposed to of won that conflict!
High minimum wage rates also cause a fall off in teen employment -- although I agree that the illegal alien angle may be a bigger factor now.
Hoppy
HuH? Since when is save the children a Liberal Mantra?
These damn kids wouldn't be without work if they had been aborted in the first place.
Now THATS the liberal mantra!!
They're taking the jobs from the teen, but they're also taking them from the primary breadwinner in many places. If an employer can hire Joe US citizen for $20.00 an hour and pay benefits, but has the option to pay Jose Mexico citizen $10.00 and hour and no benefits, then the US citizen breadwinner often loses out.
When our economy takes even the slightest dip backwords it will become more evident. A bigger decline will be disastrous.
She wants to make animated movies, so she's using the Blockbuster experience to learn a lot more about movies and about what people like in movies. In her day job, between phone calls, she watches the free rentals she gets from Blockbuster. The money is going towards setting up and paying for an apartment optimized for serious studying and gourmet cooking (which she learned over the last year by watching Alton Brown).
According to Bureau of Labor statistics, businesses hired 3.7 million immigrants over the past five years; about half to 60 percent were illegal immigrants.
I think it's pretty ironic that we pay welfare benefits to people because "there are no jobs" and then allow illegal immigrants into the country "Because they do the jobs that Americans won't." If welfare recipients were bussed to the fields and paid by the bushel it would solve several problems. Kids who have to pick vegitables for a living would learn the value of staying in school. It would also keep them off the streets and out of trouble.
Quisling: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.
In my area follwing your advise would result in a fine for frivolous use of law enforcement assets as well as a severe scolding for racial insensitivity.
Around here the police probably would try to trace such a call. Illegals mean serious $$ and power to the local ruling class - as far as they're concerned the more the better.
ping
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