Summertime Blues: Teen Unemployment in Major U.S. Cities Tops 50 Percent
June 2, 2014 – 4:16 PM
By Penny Starr
(CNSNews.com) – A new analysisby the Employment Policy Institute (EPI) shows that unemployment among teens without a high school diploma is more than 50 percent in two of the largest U.S. cities.
Using U.S. Census Bureau data from May 2013 to April 2014, the analysis reveals that in Riverside-San Bernardino area of Southern California, the unemployment rate for teens ages 16 to 19 years old who don’t have a high school diploma is 54.2 percent.
In the Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore., metropolitan area, the unemployment rate from that population is 53.8 percent.
“These numbers are staggering,” Michael Saltsman, director of research at EPI told CNSNews.com. “Teens across the country this summer are missing out on valuable work experience as they continue to suffer through an extended period of high unemployment and difficult job prospects.”
https://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/summertime-blues-teen-unemployment-major-us-cities-tops-50-percent
With very few exceptions, none of us like work. We go to work because we are incentivized by what we are paid. We are incentivized to make what we do because we have a certain lifestyle that we want. Youth unemployment is high mostly because they are simply not incentivized enough by what they can make when stacked up against a pretty comfortable lifestyle with no responsibilities.
A similar corrolation occurs in unemployment, where the money you get from the Government, while not enough to live on, eases the pain somewhat. It has been well proven how people miraculously find work right at the point where their Unemployment runs out.
Tell these teens to go back to school for a diploma and then maybe they will get a entry level job somewhere.
jjj. The point of teenagers getting jobs is to get some work experience out in the real world. School is only a small part of this. As the article says, the real problem is minimum wages that make “entry level” jobs too expensive for employers. It’s cheaper to automate, as example being the new checkout scanners just put in at Stop & Shop. Not too many entry level cashier jobs there anymore.
lets raise the minimum wage to $15…. that will increase the number of available jobs… lol
well big money schools are not helping that much. all theses kids coming out are not getting real jobs that pay that much ether. so what is the real deal to do.
The minimum wage jobs have not been automated yet. The self serve scanners have been around for a while.
When the economy is stronger the adults in low paying jobs will move on and the kids will have their jobs back.