More grim info from above article :
“Only 46% of people aged 16-24 had jobs in September, the lowest since the government began counting in 1948. The crisis is even hitting recent college graduates. “I’ve applied for a whole lot of restaurant jobs, but even those, nobody calls me back,” says Dan Schmitz, 25, a University of Wisconsin graduate with a bachelor’s degree in English who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. “Every morning I wake up thinking today’s going to be the day I get a job. I’ve not had a job for months, and it’s getting really frustrating.”
My employees work out of their own homes ... the commute is to their home office. If someone has one years experience in mortgages or two years in (non-retail) sales, we will talk to them. There is opportunity out there. My late father told me that even in the depths of the depression successful salespeople had money.
I really do feel sorry for this generation.
It is a bizarre combination of helicopter-parent led “I’m special” arrogance and yet not being trained for useful careers that has landed them in forceps not of their making.
The liberals have run the education henhouse for the last 20 years. Their seeds have sprouted at last.
I wish I had an immediate solution, but that is like looking for a magic pill for a long-developing cancer.
If we don’t rip the whole education system out from its intransigent liberal roots — from K-12 through Grad and Post-Grad, this will be the lot for our children’s children’s children.
Ernest Hemingway quickly followed up Gertrude Stein’s ‘lost generation’ quote with this one from Ecclesiates: “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.”
Looks like it’s time to bury Gen Y and the obama generation. Next!
It seems strange at first blush that young people are the biggest victims of the current economic slump. One could easily imagine that companies in a recession would prefer to hire young people, who are cheap, and slough off older workers, who are expensive. But both employers and older workers are sitting tight, taking as few risks as possible in an uncertain environment. With no openings, employers are refusing even to look at the résumés of those on the outside looking in.
Let me be very blunt here: the increased economic "uncertainty" is the fault of the Government, both parties included.
The Government *is* the systemic risk now.
Undoubtedly, the majority of those of voting age in this under-employed group voted for that Hope and Change stuff.
I doubt they will be soured in 2010 to vote against Dems, but there’s always that chance.
The central planners in DC could double the number of employed teens if they simply eliminated the minimum wage. How much they make per hour is not really important. What IS critical for them is that they learn how to work.
Oh cry me a river.Most of ‘em voted for “THE ONE” so they can just suck it up.
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Hey kids, you ****ed up, you trusted Obama.
You can even study online to become a Mortician ... or go to a regular collage.
http://www.universities.com/Search/M_Mortician_School.html
At least this group can move back in with mom and dad.
Try being out of work when you have a wife and kids, mortgage and only a handfull of productive years left to pay off everything and put away a retirement fund...plus put your kids through school!
Is this the jobless "recovery" everyone is so excited about?
Most of these folks voted for Dims. The very people who are utterly destroying their future. Bright indeed. Some, but little, sympathy.
Fingers crossed waiting to hear about my son’s interview.
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09/01/1997 $5.15
07/24/2007 $5.85
07/24/2008 $6.55
07/24/2009 $7.25