Showing posts with label teen employment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teen employment. Show all posts
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Peak Baby Boomers worked when they were teenagers, at 2.07% of population, still the peak, today at just 0.78% of population

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Get a haircut and get a real job Clean your act up and don't be a slob Get it together like your big brother Bob Why don't you, get ...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Trump shill Andy Puzder complains of non-existent labor shortage, suggests more legal immigration while 3 million teenagers sit idle

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Labor Shortage May Imperil Growth : [T]he tight labor market is the elephant in the room. ... In July, the most recent month for whic...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Arbeit macht GDP: At root America's basic economic problems lie at every level in not working enough

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There is no age tranche working up to its potential, especially not teenagers, but also not the college-aged, not the core 25 to 54 years,...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Your kid probably isn't working this summer like he should be, because of the minimum wage and cheap immigrant labor

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The population level of teenagers in 2017 has recovered to 1978 levels, but only 29% are employed in May 2017 vs. 47% in May 1978. T...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Make teenagers work again: Repeal the minimum wage

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3.3 million fewer teens work in 2016 than in 1978 even though the size of this population in 2016 is the same as in the late '70s...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

WaPo doesn't mention the minimum wage is too high and attracts cheaper illegal immigrant workers, displacing teenagers, which is just fine with them

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There are all kinds of jobs not worth the minimum wage of $7.25, and we should abolish it forwith. Youth employment would surge, as would ...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Trump is right that wages are too high: The minimum wage should be reduced to $4.20 per hour, not raised, to put teenagers back to work

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Trump was right when he said during the debates that wages are too high. He was referring to our comparative disadvantage as a nation w...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

22 States and DC raise minimum wage this year: Expect teen employment to remain in depression or decline further

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Teen employment levels today at 4.6 million are still 2.9 million below their 2006 peak of almost 7.5 million. This is not just an a...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Our brilliant masters raised the cost of youth labor by 41% in the teeth of the financial crisis, decimating their employment by 43%

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The current deficit in the general employment level is about 1.55 million below the July 2007 peak (all figures are not-seasonally-adjus...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

The Part-Timing Of America Has Been Slowing Down, Not Speeding Up

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The part-timing of workers was a much more severe phenomenon from the 1960s . . . when teenagers used to bag groceries, for example. That wa...