Posted on 08/29/2011 6:32:37 AM PDT by bkopto
The BLS reports:
In July, the employment-population ratio for youth—the proportion of the 16- to 24-year-old civilian noninstitutional population that was employed—was 48.8 percent, a record low for the series.
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and the longer this goes on, the less they are inclined to even want a job (my teenage daughter keeps remarking on this phenomenon amongst her peers)
and they voted for obama.
wonder if they’re learning that propaganda in their
screwls screwed them?
I have 3 kids in this age group. They are all in college and all employed. This summer they all worked 2 jobs each.
Well, if the YOUTHS are not employed, and the OLDER WORKERS are not employed, and the BLACKS are not employed, and the WHITE MALES are not employed, and the MALES are not employed, then who the heck is in all those cars on rush hour?
At a time when consumers want lower prices, and companies are in need of low cost labor, now would be a good time to lower minimum wage and get jr off the couch, out of the house and into a job.
Business would train them too. Train them how to: show up. Show up on time. Show up on time dressed properly. Show up on time dressed properly, and ready to cooperate with others to reach a goal. They will acquire skills that will serve to enhance the value of their labor.
These are the skills that minimum wage jobs provide, call them “added value”. Our children are being deprived by do-gooders of the life-skills they will need, that only jobs can give them.
In hard times, entry level jobs with minimum wages, can be filled by employers with older workers with work and life experience that younger workers don’t have.
Two reasons: Illegal immigrants and the Minimum Wage. If you’re a teenager, go and try and get a job in landscaping, waiting tables, bussing tables, construction, all the jobs we used to make us independent of our parents and then to help pay for college. And if I’m 16 and I want to work for someone for $5.00 per hour, that should be an agreement between me and the employer, period!
I bet the “Youth employment ratio” is likely in an exact inversely- correlated ratio to increasing student load debt (now over $1 Trillion!)
Like many Gov’t policies, it is probably is encouraging youths to stay out of the workplace.
I forgot to add the illegal immigrant problem. Thanks for reminding us all that it isn’t all the fault of our own laws on employment that drive the economic engines.
unexpectedly I’m sure...
The anecdotal evidence is that lots of minimum wage type jobs, such as fast food, are now being done by people who were not born in this country.
Of course I can’t say they are illegal aliens just because it’s clear they weren’t born here, but, we can say that these types of jobs were once filled by teenage and young adult American born people. And now native born young people have a harder time getting these sorts of jobs.
There’s anecdotal evidence that lots of people working in gas stations and convenience stores weren’t born here either. They could well be legal immigrants, but again, that closes off a job that our native born young people can’t get.
I don’t mean to turn this into in illegal immigration posting, but I am a lifelong resident of NYC. The census says we are losing people, but New York has never been this crowded. I would bet that there are between 1.5 and 2 million illegals in this great SANCTUARY city of ours. Most work, but the part of the issue that continually gets overlooked is that they are taking jobs from OUR children. This isn’t a race issue. Its a rule of law issue. Strengthening the border is great, but unless you take away the reason they want to come by going after EMPLOYERS who hire them, the problem will exist. PS: I have NEVER bought the notion that these are jobs Americans won’t do.
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