Teen employment in plummeting.
The days of going out and getting a job when you turned 16 seem to be fading.
Teresa Morisi is with the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Even though some teens still have summer jobs, the proportion of teens who participate in the labor force during the summer has dropped dramatically.”
In a report last year, that agency put out a report saying in part “In July 2016, the teen labor force participation rate was 43.2 percent, down almost 30 percentage points from the high point of 71.8 percent in July 1978.”
Teen employment overall has dropped.
It isn’t just the summer months that have seen a decline.
“A focus on education is driving this decline in employment,” says Martha Ross, a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
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