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"Employers are increasingly critical of the lack of employability skills among young workers and their poor
work behavior, but they can only gain such skills through work itself. No demographic group is
in more need of immediate job opportunities than teens and young adults (20-24)."

--from Dire Straits for Many American Workers. January 2010. Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.

Over the past nine years, the employment rates of the nation’s teens have declined steadily and dramatically to new post-World War II lows. ...(T)he declines since 2000 have been greater for the youngest teens (16-17), high school students, and low-income to low-middle-income youth.

--from Dire Straits for Many American Workers. January 2010. Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.

Teen employment in the U.S. continues to drop. In summer 2008, about 2 million fewer teens were working than in 2000.