Most former entry-level jobs have been outsourced overseas or eliminated as companies close due to foreign competition. What few are left have increasingly been taken over by illegal aliens, and experienced workers displaced from their own careers by outsourcing, downsizing, and the recession.
I definitely feel for a kid looking for his/her 1st job right now. It’s gotta be rough.
Depends on the area I think. Where I am, any teenager with transportation can get all the yard and odd work they want at $10 a hour. Anyone with even moderate skills can get $12. CT is bleeding young people. There is a shortage of healthy able people in this state.