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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 11:45 AM Original message |
High Teen Unemployment Molding 'Lost Generation' |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
1. I don't think it's a big deal if a sixteen or seventeen year old who lives |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. And when they're done with high school or college, |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. many people I know needed their high school/college jobs to make college possible |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
2. What kind of help is there for 16 year olds who can't find work? |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Nobody is suggesting that |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
3. The 20- to 29-year-olds are screwed too |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. The teens can't find jobs because mom and dad are working those jobs. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. In what context do you say that? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 04:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. There used to be a progression. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I agree with all you say here but, older people and teens are competing for unskilled jobs |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 06:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. true, but as boomers stay in longer than they might have otherwise, |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. You said: |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Me too! Most middle class people my age have kids and grandkids |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. We have a long history about molding a Lost Generation. I speak |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. let them eat ipods. nt |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
9. And yet we're told, even by some people here, |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
12. Those jobs haven't really been there since the early 2000s. |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-10-11 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. It's because older people have to take those jobs...I've seen tons of older people in jobs that |
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