How many of the supposedly unemployed teens are going to sports camp every weekend and can’t schedule a regular job?
You can always send your 17 year old daughter to work at the local fast food with 40 year old illegal aliens. That should go over well.
Seems like more of those jobs are probably being given to illegals. Fast food establishments even require its employees to be bilingual.
This is true for some teenagers in my area. Also, some just don’t want to work at “certain” jobs.
My two oldest have been working since 16 yrs old and 15 yrs old at the same job. They’ve had the job (same place) for 2 1/2 and 2 years respectively. The latter also has an additional job for the same boss at a local pool. Their boss worked around their sports schedule during fall season (they play a fall sport). They both babysit and do serving for various catered events (for cash). This summer their hours were cut due to a drop in profits at the store/post office where they work. The oldest leaves for college soon so she won’t be working there except maybe during breaks and summers. She’ll have to find a job near her college after the sport season is over.
I don’t know what it’s like in other areas but here it seems that there are less jobs for teens but also a huge problem is so many teens here won’t work at certain jobs.
A neighbor’s daughter came home from college in mid-May, looked for a job, couldn’t find one she liked, so didn’t work. She’s almost 20 years old and never had a job!
So maybe it’s a combination of factors.