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Teen employment
It’s a tough job market for teens. Take the (0) case of Jason Borovits, 19. Last year, he was working for retailer Best Buy but his hours cut. Then he lost his job altogether. For months now, he has been trying to find a daytime job or one with evening hours he can go back to school, but he hasn't been to find either.
The retail, manufacturing and construction sectors, which are usually key of young workers, have been hit hard by the economic downturn. In addition, older workers are settling for jobs that used to go to teens. For example, as recently as 10 years ago, nearly 60% of all newspaper carriers in the US were teens; these days, that figure is less than 20%. The result of this trend: the teen unemployment was near 28% in October.
Teens now make just 3.2% of the nation's working population, down from a high of nearly 9% in the mid-1970s. Overall employment in the US rose about 7% between 2000 and early 2008; teen employment, in headed in the other direction. Today, 4.5 million teens have some form of employment, about half the 8.2 million who were employed three decades ago. This trend is sure to have a negative effect on the economy long-term.
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