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Back in HS/college the money from the couple of lawns I cut came in very handy, that's for sure.

I was working for the forest preserve district. That was back in 91 and the job situation stunk back then as well. Not as bad as now but close to 7% unemployment. And there were a lot of the crew chiefs who had their degrees, but who were back working the summer job at the FP because they couldn't get a job in their field. Returning help had priority over new hires and in 91 everyone had been there the year before.

I saw the same thing on vacation. In Yellowstone there were a lot of older people working at the counters and restaurants that would normally have been school kids. The name tags had a the person's home state on them. The older people were all locals from Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. But what bothered me was that many more had foreign countries on them. Why are jobs for a government agency going to foreign nationals when so many Americans are out of a job? Not high paying permanent jobs, but lodging and food is rolled in and it would buy people three or four months for the economy to turn around. And since the jobs are by nature temporary they wouldn't have the "over-qualification" issue.

This isn't an Illegal/Legal thing. This is a looking after your own in hard times issue.

I sense a certain smug satisfaction by some that people get ‘knocked down’ to counters and mowing lawns on here.

It’s a form of class warfare and being ‘on top’ that makes some very pleased about the current situation.