US jobless teen rate may touch record
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May 3, 2011, Tuesday
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A RECORD-LOW one in four American teenagers will land a summer job in the coming months as a result of a still-poor job market and lost federal funding, according to a report issued yesterday.
As a consequence, urban studies experts said cities like Chicago - where summer unemployment among African-Americans aged 16 to 19 years approaches 90 percent - could experience a rise in street violence. "Both national and local leadership continue to ignore the plight of youth who are most at risk for potential violence as a result of being left on the streets in the summer months when crime is at its most explosive," Chicago Urban League President Andrea Zopp said in a statement.
The summer employment rate among the teenagers this year was seen at between 25-27 percent, based on an analysis of four decades of employment trends by Andrew Sum of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. That would be a post-World War II low, while as recently as 2006 the teen summer employment rate was 37 percent. United States economic growth has been sluggish since the recession ended in June 2009.
As a consequence, urban studies experts said cities like Chicago - where summer unemployment among African-Americans aged 16 to 19 years approaches 90 percent - could experience a rise in street violence. "Both national and local leadership continue to ignore the plight of youth who are most at risk for potential violence as a result of being left on the streets in the summer months when crime is at its most explosive," Chicago Urban League President Andrea Zopp said in a statement.
The summer employment rate among the teenagers this year was seen at between 25-27 percent, based on an analysis of four decades of employment trends by Andrew Sum of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. That would be a post-World War II low, while as recently as 2006 the teen summer employment rate was 37 percent. United States economic growth has been sluggish since the recession ended in June 2009.
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