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Recession Creating A Lost Generation [Unemployment Among 16-24 year olds At 18%]
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Posted on 10/11/2009 10:38:22 PM PDT by Steelfish

Recession Creating A Lost Generation High unemployment is damaging the future for America’s youth

Dan Schmitz, 25, a University of Wisconsin grad, hasn't had a job in months. [Pic in URL]

By Peter Coy

Oct . 11, 2009

Bright, eager — and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to young people who can't grab onto the first rung of the career ladder.

Affected are a range of young people, from high school dropouts to college grads to newly minted lawyers and MBAs across the developed world from Britain to Japan.

One indication: In the U.S., the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has climbed to more than 18 percent, from 13 percent a year ago.

For people just starting their careers, the damage may be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of "lost generation." Studies suggest that an extended period of youthful joblessness can significantly depress lifetime income as people get stuck in jobs that are beneath their capabilities, or come to be seen by employers as damaged goods.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhoeconomy; generationy
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To: Steelfish

Unfortunately, I’m in that age group, didn’t vote for “hope” and “change”, and still couldn’t find a job this past summer. It is hitting that age group just like it’s hitting everyone else...


21 posted on 10/12/2009 2:18:07 AM PDT by thedeaconskid
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To: Steelfish

America is well armed and blood will flow if the yutes rampage... young blood.

LLS


22 posted on 10/12/2009 3:29:22 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: OldMissileer

I slept pretty well at night back in those days knowing we had guys like you looking out for us.

Now, not so much so. This administration and the generation that put all these marxist, socialist, and communists in power scare the hell out of me and it curls my toes to see what they are doing to our country.


23 posted on 10/12/2009 3:33:03 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: babygene

16-18 year olds went for Obama? Yeah screw them.

Hate to break it to you guys but the reason this country sucks now isn’t because of us it’s because our previous generation failed horribly. Go ahead and blame it on the minors voting for obama though if it makes you feel better.


24 posted on 10/12/2009 5:03:08 AM PDT by ciwwaf
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To: Tainan

“If he can do the work and be an asset to the company...Good for him.”

Right up until he does something for himself or the company at someone elses expense.


25 posted on 10/12/2009 5:46:40 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Steelfish

We heard this same crap in the early 90s.


26 posted on 10/12/2009 5:50:26 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Exactly right. If they really want to work they’ll find something. My 22 year old son graduated college this past May and hasn’t been able to find anything in his field here in the northeast (financial) so he took another opportunity in a different field starting at the bottom. The pay isn’t great but he said it beats sitting home applying to jobs in cyberspace where they never even reply to you. At least he can pay his student loans and healthcare.


27 posted on 10/12/2009 5:54:05 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: ciwwaf

“Hate to break it to you guys but the reason this country sucks now isn’t because of us it’s because our previous generation failed horribly.”

To some extent you have a point... It wasn’t the the younger generation that screwed things up up.It was the liberal politicians and those that keep them in power via the voting booth,

To the extent that thee younger folks allow themselves to be mislead they do bear some of the responsibility though. And this COUNTRY doesn’t suck. Half the people in this country are conservative, have solid values, work hard and contribute.


28 posted on 10/12/2009 5:55:46 AM PDT by babygene
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To: jersey117

Further advice to your son, 1. Get on Linkedin and 2. Start contacting as many people as possible for “informational interviews. He will get NOWHERE applying for jobs online.


29 posted on 10/12/2009 5:56:25 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Steelfish

Too many people choose their major without determining what their employment and earning potential will be with said degree.


30 posted on 10/12/2009 5:57:22 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Post Toasties

The youngest “Gen Xer” would be 29, while most of us are well into our 30s. We are WAY outnumbered by the Gen Ys and millenials (thanks to all you folks who decided to breed in the 1980s/90s), who are the most self-centered and babied generation ever!


31 posted on 10/12/2009 5:59:50 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Clemenza
Get on Linkedin

Don't know much about that site but I will pass it on to him. Thanks for the info.

32 posted on 10/12/2009 6:06:10 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Steelfish

University of Wisconsin-A bastion of socialistic communist. It is no wonder why Dan Schmitz, cannot get a job.

When looking for a job, you have to offer the employer something in return for a salary! Political activism isn’t that something.


33 posted on 10/12/2009 6:13:36 AM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: ciwwaf

One has only failed in life if they live it according to somebody’s premise other than their own. Refuse to be anybody’s victim. As bad as things might seem, there is nowhere else on Earth that will offer a young person the endless opportunities for success that you have here.

My son graduated from college two years ago and has been working at a restaurant since then. His original plan was to go to law school and has taken the LSAT’s and the rest of it to get ready.

He asked me this summer if I would be disappointed if he didn’t go to law school, but instead opened his own business with a micro-brewery. I laughed so hard my ribs hurt. I told him that IMHO, the country and the world would be much better served with another great beer maker than another lawyer.

How’s that for guts? Start a business right in the teeth of a depression. I told him that if his business was successful, people all over the world would know his name and pursue his product, but even if he was a wildly successful lawyer, nobody would give a damn.

O’Brady’s Brewing Co., coming soon to a beer store near you.


34 posted on 10/12/2009 6:18:16 AM PDT by Rearden (Deo Vindice)
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To: OldMissileer
I was on Titan II Missile Combat Crew and we were deep in the center of fighting the Cold War. The daily Intel briefings sometimes curled your toes and the Alerts were tough and dangerous (we were one of a handful of jobs authorized hazardous Duty Pay inside CONUS). We were young and partied like heck off duty and pulled Alerts ten times per month and were all keenly aware of politics, both national and international.

I hear you! I was deep inside Cheyenne Mountain during those same times. Used to watch the Missle Warning screens when we ran scenarios and think, "Someday, this is going to happen. Some mad man will turn the key and kaboom!"

Almost a miracle that we didn't.

Yet....

35 posted on 10/12/2009 6:19:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: neverbluffer
Those Dumb Ass young people who voted for hopey changey have themselves to blame.

Actually, I fault the publik skools. They are teaching Marxism from kindergarten on and have been for 25-30 years. It starts very subtle, like forcing kids to share school supplies they bring from home, giving to the "less fortunate" so that everyone is "equal". These young 'uns voted exactly as they were taught in skool. They don't teach history, math or civics to any degree anymore, but that generation knows Marxism when the see it and they have been taught to believe it is good. This has been the plan ever since the Department of (re)Education was formed in 1978.....

36 posted on 10/12/2009 6:23:24 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: babygene
You know that republicans have held power right and they get nothing done? Sure liberals are worse but republicans have done more than their fair share to ruin this country and not to mention corrupt.

As for this country sucking now. I was not talking about the people that inhabit this country.

We have a terrible school system
We have a corrupt dis-functioning government
We have politicians and political entities that are untouchable by the courts
We have a high tax rate
We have a huge debt
We have a deficit
We have a zero-sum activity (stock traders) that is admired by republicans as a prime example of capitalism at it's finest that is nothing more than disabling the economy for personal benefit.
etc, etc, etc.a
all of this didn't start with Obama.

You can ignore that it's happening until one day you wake up and look around and realize the truth. Or you can open your eyes now. Our government (republicans and democrats) isn't anything to be proud of, it's something to be ashamed of.

My generation and my friends are the ones that are having to deal with it. We are the ones that see it. My tuition is being raised again and again and jobs are becoming fewer and fewer. We are the ones that are being screwed financially in the future and we did nothing wrong except being born at the wrong time.

37 posted on 10/12/2009 6:24:25 AM PDT by ciwwaf
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To: Clemenza

True. Think about how long some of these clowns have been in office:

Barney Frank: First elected 1981

Nancy Pelosi: First elected 1987

Joe Biden: First elected 1972

Charley Rangel: First elected 1970

Harry Reid: First elected 1982

Chris Dodd: First elected 1980

The list goes on and on. Most have been in office for at least 20 years.

It’s not just Obama. Incumbents are usually shoo-ins for reelection, despite how bad things get. Voters in most districts have been screwing themselves for at least a generation.

We NEED term limits.


38 posted on 10/12/2009 6:30:49 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Steelfish

Sounds like a character-builder to me. No workey no eatey.

Well, except that isn’t the way it goes anymore, is it?

No workey? Then go gettey in liney for a handout. You deserve it, doncha know.


39 posted on 10/12/2009 6:36:34 AM PDT by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: Alas Babylon!
We NEED term limits.

That would take a Constitutional Convention. When you hold a Constitutional Convention you open the Constitution up to all sorts of manipulation. Some could be good, but most would likely be very bad.

What we need is an electorate that will put down the TV remote and the cheesy poofs, get involved and VOTE! We have the power, we just don't use it....what we are seeing now is our own fault...elections have consequences.

40 posted on 10/12/2009 6:40:14 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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