“The less work you do when you’re a teenager, the less likely it is that you work [right] after you graduate, and you’re going to end up getting lower-wage, less employment when you’re in your early- to mid-20s,” he said.
The situation is “cutting off an avenue by which they would have gained access to experience and skill to help them” land future jobs, he said.
The teen summer employment level has declined for four straight years, hitting a record low of 25.6 percent last year, the report revealed. And while the nation’s overall employment grew by 866,000 between the first quarter of 2010 and 2011, the number of employed teens dropped by 131,000.
http://www.suntimes.com/5059160-417/jobs-for-only-25-of-teens-study.html
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