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  • WSJ: Job Slayers - Kennedy's minimum wage hikes aggravates poverty problem.

    08/29/2005 5:06:29 AM PDT · by OESY · 9 replies · 846+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | August 29, 2005 | Editorial
    Buried within the good news in the recent U.S. job creation report is one sobering statistic: Unemployment among America's teenagers remains stubbornly high at 16%. Even more frustrating is that the jobless rate for African-American teens is close to 33%.... To be sure, many of these teens aren't aggressively searching for jobs.... But what seems equally clear is that teens and unskilled workers face barriers to entry when they attempt to join the job market for the first time. The scandal here is that these barriers are created in large part by liberal policymakers who claim to represent the best...