WSJ: Worst Job Market for Teens
“If your teenager is looking for a job this summer, as mine is, brace yourself: The employment outlook for teens is among the gloomiest in decades,” warns Work and Family columnist Sue Shellenbarger with the Wall Street Journal. “This summer’s teen employment rate will match a 57-year low set in 2004 and 2005, predicts Andrew Sum, director for the Center for Labor Market Studies and Northeastern University, based on an analysis of federal data released last week. Just 36.5% of 16- to 19-year-olds will be working, down from 37.1% in 2006 and 45$ in 2000, he says, citing increased competition for part-time and temp jobs from older workers and immigrants.”
Since this is coming from a notoriously pro-immigration newspaper, I’m surprised they didn’t end the paragraph with “thank goodness.” Perhaps Miss Shellenbarger can get her teenage son or daughter on as an intern in the diversity enforcement division of the Dow Jones Company.
For those teenagers blocked out of the job market by cheaper labor provided by “new arrivals,” be of good cheer. This is only a taste of things to come for you.
[...] Only Here to Do the Jobs That Americans Would Do 12 06 2007 CSM today echoes WSJ from about a month ago, about the paltry summer job market for American teenagers. Mass immigration is rightly blamed, and [...]