Posted on 07/17/2013 1:35:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The plight of youth unemployment in developed economies is so severe it has prompted the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to call for more government intervention, possibly including paying companies to hire.
It also said on Tuesday that governments should not roll back minimum welfare schemes and should reallocate, where possible, budgets towards programs designed to get people back in work.
Unveiling its 2013 employment outlook, the OECD said joblessness was likely to remain high in its 34 developed member states through most of next year.
But speaking to Reuters after the report’s release, the group’s head of employment policy, Stefano Scarpetta, warned particularly of a growing emergency over youth unemployment. …
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They couldn’t pay my company enough to hire the youth they want us to hire. Each one would need an adult minder. Or more.
Why not lower the minimum wage? Or at least the minimum wage for people under a certain age?
Wouldn’t that be more efficient then collecting taxes to overpay people who are worth less than the current minimum?
Socialist morons have made it hard and expensive to hire people. Now they want to subsidize hiring.
Brought to you by the same people who think it’s a fantastic idea to charge companies (via minimum wage increases and Obamacare) to hire young people.
The problem in the United States is the minimum wage. Don’t pay people to hire kids, just reduce or eliminate the minimum wage. (Politically, they can’t because union contract pay is figured in minimum wage multiples.)
The schools produce a product that is unemployable. Kids literally have to be trained to do everything, from how to dress to how to count change. Forget about sitting them down to do bookkeeping or data entry.
You have to train them how to be polite and how to talk to customers. It’s just not worth the effort it takes when there are thousands of qualified older people vying for the same job.
I've been suggesting that for years...but the Unions would never go for it.
#6 is 100% correct.
Someday common sense will return. Probably a decade after the entire system collapses.
What I’ve found is that people over 40 actually show up for work every day. They do it on time. They don’t get an attitude about people telling them what to do. They generally don’t get into petty fights among themselves. They tend to leave their personal lives at home.
When I was a kid (boomer), it was even tough to find a McDonald's type job . . . because there were so many of us. Showing up on time, doing the work and passing a drug test wasn't enough back then.
the zombies are upon us.
How did you come to that estimate?
I'm thinking more like 2022 unless a miraculous renaissance occurs in DC
Russian took 70 years to overcome and kick out Communism.
Would these yutes pass a criminal background check??
Probly not.
Would these yutes pass a drug test?
Not after doing the Purple Drank and skittles
Do these fools think the gov’t can just print all the money it wants and spend it however it wants? Oh, wait......
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