U.S. risks losing generation of workers with teen unemployment

By Anne Michaud

Newsday

Published: Wednesday, July 18 2012 12:44 a.m. MDT

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It's troubling that teens today are facing their third straight summer of bleak employment prospects.

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anti-liar

Salt Lake City, UT

Good ideas, but no discussion of teen and young adult unemployment can be complete without acknowledging the impact illegal immigration and illegal hiring of cheap, illegal-alien labor has had on teen and young adult employment prospects.

5:20 a.m. July 18, 2012
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BoomerJeff

Saint George, UT

All I know is that the jobs illegal aliens are doing now, are the jobs all us teenagers did when I was young in the 60s and 70s (fast food, grocery, landscaping, cleaning, babysitting, construction, etc.) IF we enforced our immigration laws, that More..

2:55 p.m. July 18, 2012
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SEY

Sandy, UT

The biggest obstacle to teen employment is not illegal-alien labor. It's minimum wage and anti-internship laws. Teens can't gain experience because often they're not worth much to employers to begin with. It's a Catch-22.
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9:16 a.m. July 18, 2012
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