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American teens refuse to get jobs
Fewer than one in three American teens gets a summer job
More teens than ever are shunning summer jobs.
The number of jobs that people ages 16 to 19 secured in May — the start of the summer hiring surge — was just 156,000, down 14% from last year, according to an analysis of government data by career outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released this week. And last year, the number of teens who got summer jobs was nearly 11% lower than the year prior.
That’s all part of a decades-long trend in which fewer teens than ever work summer jobs: While more than half of teenagers worked summer jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, these days fewer than one in three do, according to a survey released in 2015 by the Pew Research Center.
“The general trend in summer employment among teens has been downward and that trend has been going on since the late 1970s,” said John Challenger, chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
The $15 Minimum Wage and the End of Teen Work
Guest Post by Jack Salmon
A new report from JP Morgan Chase & Co. finds that the summer employment rate for teenagers is nearing a record low at 34 percent. The report surveyed 15 US cities and found that despite an increase in summer positions available over a two year period, only 38 percent of teens and young adults found summer jobs.
This would be worrying by itself given the importance of work experience in entry-level career development, but it is also part of a long-term trend. Since 1995 the rate of seasonal teenage employment has declined by over a third from around 55 percent to 34 percent in 2015. The report does not attempt to examine why summer youth employment has fallen over the past two decades. If it had, it would probably find one answer in the minimum wage.
Most of the 15 cities studied in this report have minimum wage rates above the federal level, with cities such as Seattle having a rate more than double that. Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics seen in the chart show exactly how a drastic rise in the minimum wage rate affects the rate of employment.
Seattle has experienced the largest 3 month job loss in its history last year, following the introduction of a $15 minimum wage. We can only imagine the impact such a change has had on the prospects of employment for the young and unskilled.
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TEENS, JUVENILES OR BLACKS RIOTING?
You don’t think the mainstream corporate media shapes the news the way they want you to see it? You don’t think they have a liberal agenda designed to obscure the truth about blacks in America? You don’t think they purposely cover up the facts about black violence? You don’t think they purposely replace the word blacks with teens and willfully censor pictures from the scenes of out of control black behavior?
Well think again. Note the contrast between this ABC report on black riots at a Kentucky mall and the truth about what happened at that mall.
Mall Mayhem: Over 1,000 Teens Shut Down Kentucky Mall
A mall in Louisville, Kentucky, reopened this morning after over 1,000 teens loitering, fighting and refusing to leave businesses forced the shopping center to shut down Saturday night, police said.
Around 7 p.m., police started to receive disturbance calls from the Mall St. Mathews regarding “juveniles who were loitering, refusing to leave businesses, fights, those kinds of things,” St. Matthews Police spokesman Dennis McDonald told ABC News today.