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The Dead End Kids-(Youth Unemployment Hits 52.2%!)
NY Daily Post ^ | 10-27-2009 | RICHARD WILNER

Posted on 09/28/2009 10:14:04 AM PDT by tcrlaf

The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent -- a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept. -- meaning millions of Americans are staring at the likelihood that their lifetime earning potential will be diminished and, combined with the predicted slow economic recovery, their transition into productive members of society could be put on hold for an extended period of time.

And worse, without a clear economic recovery plan aimed at creating entry-level jobs, the odds of many of these young adults -- aged 16 to 24, excluding students -- getting a job and moving out of their parents' houses are long. Young workers have been among the hardest hit during the current recession -- in which a total of 9.5 million jobs have been lost.

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Al Angrisani, the former assistant Labor Department secretary under President Reagan, doesn't see a turnaround in the jobs picture for entry-level workers and places the blame squarely on the Obama administration and the construction of its stimulus bill.

"There is no assistance provided for the development of job growth through small businesses, which create 70 percent of the jobs in the country," Angrisani said in an interview last week. "All those [unemployed young people] should be getting hired by small businesses."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; obama; obamanomics; obroma; unemployment; youth
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To: jslade
And, this is the generation that is supposed to pay off our national debt

That ain't gonna happen

21 posted on 09/28/2009 10:42:17 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: tcrlaf

today’s Obama Slacker Kids don’t want to work anyway


22 posted on 09/28/2009 10:51:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: edcoil

You are so right. As a mother of teenagers, I will tell you that the jobs available to them are slim, and if they can get a job they are given a minimal amount of hours. Not even enough to put gas in their tanks!


23 posted on 09/28/2009 10:52:58 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: tcrlaf

These hopeful youths and their kids will get stuck with the bill for the government’s spending orgy. The Chinese, among others, should be very nervous.


24 posted on 09/28/2009 10:54:48 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: call meVeronica

That was what I was thinking also.


25 posted on 09/28/2009 10:56:43 AM PDT by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: tcrlaf

Raise the minimum wage again!


26 posted on 09/28/2009 10:58:06 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
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To: tcrlaf

At my local grocery store in Texas middle age men compete with teens for bag boy jobs. It is honest work, but entry level at best.


27 posted on 09/28/2009 11:02:35 AM PDT by comps4spice (The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise--ACORN is just one of their front groups.)
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To: tcrlaf

I believe the high youth unemployment is intentional on the part of the govt.


28 posted on 09/28/2009 11:30:02 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: comps4spice

those jobs are slowly being eliminated by self-checkout technology...in a few years, cashiers and bagboys will be out of work on a massive scale as the cost to employ them skyrockets - especially with government mandated health care. A robot does not call in sick, does not need health insurance, and costs far less to operate than a human cashier on a recurring basis...

These youth will either form his new Corps or rebel against Big Brother...it will be interesting to see which happens...


29 posted on 09/28/2009 11:34:13 AM PDT by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The Kool-Aid kids (they thought getting aid/free stuff was soooo cool...but woopsie, stuff isn’t free and soon neither are we).


30 posted on 09/28/2009 11:35:50 AM PDT by Anima Mundi (The trouble with trouble is it starts out as Utopia)
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To: tcrlaf

The wise ones will take this opportunity to increase their education. All others, could be tomorrow’s losers.


31 posted on 09/28/2009 11:38:41 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
The Dead End Kids-(Youth Unemployment Hits 52.2%!)

Sadly, with the education most of them have, they probably think they are better off than the 47.8% who have jobs because their number is bigger.

32 posted on 09/28/2009 11:49:23 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: tcrlaf
all together now!

he brough us hope and change.......barack hussein obama

33 posted on 09/28/2009 11:51:34 AM PDT by wny
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To: hsmomx3

Don’t worry, soon this generation will be inducted into ObamaCorps, paid at your expense, to report on you, round you up, and advance his cause.


34 posted on 09/28/2009 1:17:13 PM PDT by DesertConservative
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To: Retired Greyhound

I believe the high youth unemployment is intentional on the part of the govt.
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Agreed, part of the radicalization. Today’s disadvantaged youth is tomorrow’s footsoldier. Just demonize the opposition as the cause of his failure and point him in the right direction.


35 posted on 09/28/2009 1:18:40 PM PDT by DesertConservative
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To: DesertConservative

Exactly what i think he’s up to. Disaffected young men and women are the perfect breeding ground for radical change. Since when have Democrats ever been interested in helping people out of poverty?


36 posted on 09/28/2009 1:51:52 PM PDT by BenKenobi
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To: DesertConservative

Make the next generation disillusioned with capitalism. That’s their goal.


37 posted on 09/28/2009 1:55:01 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Retired Greyhound

Cue Michael Moore and the MSM to beat the drum on how free markets failed them.

All this is planned. There is a lot of momentum, say, the past century, of socialist activism and subversion.

I seriously have doubts a last-minute grassroots effort will turn the tide peacefully through the normal body politic.

What it does serve to do is remind those who would reject socialism that they are not alone for when the next shot heard round the world is fired. It has been my opinion for the last year or so that none of this will end peacefully.


38 posted on 09/28/2009 3:44:31 PM PDT by DesertConservative
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