and yet, i can't find one to mow lawn, rake leaves or shovel snow...
Posted on 04/11/2015 2:48:38 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Teenagers who work enjoy numerous benefits. As Ron Lieber argues in his new book, “The Opposite of Spoiled,” they learn how to appropriately handle bosses, co-workers, and money, and they might learn something about what they’re good at. Lieber’s message is timely, because working teenagers are rapidly disappearing.
Data from the Current Population Survey show that the share of 16- to 19-year-olds who were neither working nor looking for work each March has risen around 15 percent since the late 1990s. Part of that is due to lower demand for their labor, but the trend was strong even before the 2008 economic crash.
High-school-age teenagers who have jobs during the school year largely work part time. But few do anymore: In the late 1990s, 23 percent of 16-year-olds had a part-time job in March. In 2011 to 2013, just 9 percent did.
Teens from affluent families are more likely to work during the school year. Sixteen and 17-year-olds whose families earn more than $68,000 are 50 percent more likely to be working or looking for work than teens from families making less than $21,000. (For these comparisons, we subtracted the teen’s wages from family income.)
Recent high school graduates have experienced a similar decline in full-time work. Those ages 18 and 19 are about half as likely to work full time in March as 18- and 19-year-olds in the late 1990s.
The decline of work—especially full-time work—has continued through the college and early career years. The share of 30-year-olds neither working nor looking for work rose 23 percent over the period studied. There has been a slight rise in educational attainment, which explains some of the decline in work. But neither higher education nor higher unemployment rates can fully explain the trend away from young people working.
For teens and twentysomethings, skipping the labor market often results in permanently lower earnings. It may also deprive them of the opportunity to hector the next generation about not working hard enough.
Originally published in The Wall Street Journal
Cherry, the whole thing is nonsense, from the U. S. vs Mexican perspective. We have two groups from Europe trying to explain why they belong and the others don’t.
If you study your history, and it sounds like you have somewhat, this situation now is not justified by any claims of the Mexican national.
Mexicans were not prevalent above what is now the Mexican/American border. In fact, the nation Mexico didn’t exist until around 1825, somewhere between there and 1850. The Spaniards were here, not the Mexicans. The native American Indians were here before any of them.
I don’t see any Mexican nationals addressing what was stolen from them. Do you? The large Spanish land grants stole the land from the Native Americans, not the Mexicans.
Borders were set after the U. S. won a war with Mexico. On top of that the United States compensated the Mexican government monetarily with a tidy sum for that time.
Today the CIA Factbook says something on the order of 60% plus of Mexicans have Spanish blood in them.
What is taking place can’t be justified at all.
The U.S.A. is #1 in XBox, 12th in the freedom index, and has managed a 400 percent increase in morbidly obesity since 1986.
http://www.xboxtags.com/rankings/country/
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
How’s that working out for the Sheeples?
This is something I have missed as to why it happened. Why exactly did these places close down?
I was in football/track/tennis/gymnastics and managed to work part time and engage in the activities. It was different in the ‘60s and if one wanted to work, there were more avenues to do it. The jobs so many complain about as not paying enough to support a family rarely had those trying to raise a family employed in them (other than the manager positions) and part time teens made up the bulk of them. I would see schoolmates when they came into the places I worked and when I went to the ice cream shop, etc., on my travels. Today, the economy sucks so bad that those jobs are filled by unqualified-for-anything-else or qualified-but-no-jobs-available adults and the teens have been pushed out of what used to be a typical teen-type job.
The unemployment rate in Mexico is 4.5%. Better than the USA.
Why not live in Mexico? I will buy your bus ticket.
obama has destroyed our economy and us.
you left out that obama closed down REPUBLICAN car dealerships
and yet, i can't find one to mow lawn, rake leaves or shovel snow...
“only 9% of kids working”
Superb training for a future life of welfare and sucking off the government teat (via the labor of the rest of us), oh, and for voting Democrat for the rest of their lives as well, of course.
There are good former Mexican nationals here. Noting that fact does not mean I wish I was living in Mexico, and I can’t image an aptitude so dense as to think it did.
"A survey of American economists found that 90 percent of them regarded minimum wage laws as increasing the rate of unemployment among low-skilled workers. Inexperience is often the problem. Only about 2 percent of Americans over the age of 24 earned the minimum wage.""What is surprising is that, despite an accumulation of evidence over the years of the devastating effects of minimum wage laws on black teenage unemployment rates, members of the Congressional Black Caucus continue to vote for such laws." -- Thomas Sowell
In the 60s when I was growing up every kid 14 years old had a job doing something. And every one of us WANTED to work.
In the smaller towns of only a few hundred it was harder to find a job unless it was on a farm.
Famous Presidential Lies Contest
LBJ:
• We were attacked (in the Gulf of Tonkin)
Nixon:
• I am not a crook.
GHW Bush:
• Read my lips - No New Taxes
Clinton:
• I did not have sex with that woman
GW Bush:
• Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
Obama:
• I will have the most transparent administration in history.
• The stimulus will fund shovel-ready jobs.
• I am focused like a laser on creating jobs.
• The IRS is not targeting anyone.
• It was a spontaneous riot about a movie.
• I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds division, conflict and cynicism”.
• You didn’t build that!
• I will restore trust in Government.
• The Cambridge cops acted stupidly.
• The public will have 5 days to look at every bill that lands on my desk
• It’s not my red line - it is the world’s red line.
• Whistle blowers will be protected in my administration.
• We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest.
• I am not spying on American citizens.
• Obama Care will be good for America.
• You can keep your doctor.
• Premiums will be lowered by $2500.
• If you like it, you can keep your current healthcare plan.
• It’s just like shopping at Amazon.
• I knew nothing about “Fast and Furious” gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
• I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups.
• I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi.
• I have never known my uncle from Kenya who is in the country illegally and that was
arrested and told to leave the country over 20 years ago.
• And, I have never lived with that uncle. He finally admitted (12-05-2013) that he DID
know his uncle and that he DID live with him.
• If elected I promise not to renew the Patriot Act.
• If elected I will end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan within the 1st 9 months of my term.
• I will close Guantanamo within the first 6 months of my term.
• I will bridge the gap between black and white and between America and other countries.
And the biggest one of all:
• “I, Barrack Hussein Obama, pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.”
I believe we have a winner!!!
I learned to swim, dive, wrestle etc. without any formal classes and while working on the farm cutting firewood, growing and harvesting crops, feeding livestock etc. with ZERO formal classes in those things. The employment rate for teenagers then was nearly one hundred percent, those who didn’t live and work on the farm usually had part time jobs in stores or summer construction work etc.
Not where I grew up (SE Virginia). Almost every boy and about half the girls I knew earned money at some sort of part-time job. For the boys, it might have been a paper route, working as an usher at the local movie theater, or bagging groceries. Today, some of these jobs have been taken over by adults (paper routes) or eliminated (movie usher). I have the impression that it is more difficult today for teens to find a part-time job, even if they really want one.
Generations of welfare dependency kills work ethic. Families of achievers pass a strong work ethic down to their progeny. Surprise, surprise. Conclusion: higher taxes are needed on those working to send more cash to those who won't.
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