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Mowing lawns this summer may look pretty good to teens on the hunt for jobs. Credit: Getty Images
Reuters reports just one in four U.S. teens -- a record-low and the worst rate since World War II -- will be able to secure a summer job this year. As a result, urban studies experts tell the news service, big cities such as Chicago could see more street violence.
"Both national and local leadership continue to ignore the plight of youth who are most at risk for potential violence as a result of being left on the streets in the summer months when crime is at its most explosive," Chicago Urban League President Andrea Zopp tells Reuters in a statement.
In Chicago, the news service reports, 16- to 19-year-old African-Americans face a nearly 90 percent summer unemployment rate, while the summer employment rate for teens nationwide is expected to be about 25 percent, according to an analysis by Andrew Sum of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.
Experts tell Reuters no summer jobs for teens can result in a less-experienced work force and "increased government spending due to lower lifetime earnings, reduced tax revenues and higher prison costs."
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5-03-2011 @ 5:17PM
Jan said...If our president had the sense to get rid of the illegal aliens, a lot more people could get jobs. My two 17 yr. olds and myself applied at McDonald's and couldn't get hired but the place is loaded with Hispanics. The same with Popeye's Chicken, Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC and all the others in our town. I had to close my post construction cleaning business 4 yrs. ago because the builders told me flat out that the Mexicans do it way cheaper.
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5-04-2011 @ 3:43PM
thejokernj said...The reason for high teen unemployment is because the jobs traditionally reserved for teens and the unemployed(especially male-centric jobs) have been taken by ILLEGAL immigrants! FACT! Landscaping, construction, snow shoveling even in my town!
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5-03-2011 @ 5:48PM
searcher said...25%? In my honors class of 30 students, only 2 were able to get a job. That's less than 10%. Also, as a side note (only because of the African American stastic) we are all white.
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