Collection 6: "Teens at Work"

To combat high national unemployment rates for teens, legislators must craft more initiatives which help induce creation of summer and part-time work opportunities.

To combat high national unemployment rates for teens, legislators must craft more initiatives which help induce creation of summer and part-time work opportunities.

Moreover, when jobs are scarce, even youths who simply want
discretionary money must instead request finances from mom, dad or guardians, which places added levels of stress upon the family.

One factor behind increased teen joblessness is that youths will often come up against experienced adults willing to work part-time for stable pay. While anyone’s successful ascension out of unemployment-status in this sluggish economy is positive, too much position-filling at newer generations’ expense is detrimental long-term.

While anyone’s successful ascension out of unemployment-status in this sluggish economy is positive, too much position-filling at newer generations’ expense is detrimental long-term.

While anyone’s successful ascension out of unemployment-status in this sluggish economy is positive, too much position-filling at newer generations’ expense is detrimental long-term.

For at part-time jobs is where most members of tomorrow’s labor force will first learn valuable workplace skills. Delaying or denying this experience, crucial to one’s ongoing professional development, will engender negative economic implications in future decades.

For at part-time jobs is where most members of tomorrow’s labor force will first learn valuable workplace skills. Delaying or denying this experience, crucial to one’s ongoing professional development, will engender negative economic implications in future decades.

Already, businesses nationwide report deficiencies in quantities of candidates who can fill positions which require advanced capabilities.

Otherwise, a generation whose future is already threatened by the Great Recession’s aftermath could fall even further behind—an unacceptable, dangerous prospect.