Teen Summer Job Market May Be the Worst Since 1951

There are 17 million people unemployed and 8 million ILLEGALS that are! If all the ILLEGALS were fired, that would open up 8 million jobs! Why would an employer want to hire a teen when they have lots of people applying that have college degrees. One of the problems is there are not enough jobs being created and the ones that are the unemployed are having to compete with ILLEGALS and all those foreigners coming in on visas$$$ Until these issues are addressed, we will continue to see LEGAL AMERICANS unemployed!!!

Have no idea on all the factors involved..but do know around 75% of all fast food chains in my mid-west city seem to have a large employment of hispanic workers..Legal or not..Possibly a factor,,none of the american kids want these jobs..

thanks to our current president- the people that have money to create jobs and own companies are penalized to death with taxes and well...... they have to cut employees. That inlcudes many franchisees that employ our teenagers.
Along with all the illegals , their are no jobs for our kids. Looks like the future----......less the leadership of this country is radically changed!

The reason they can't find job's is the illegal residents have taken them all.They just don't do jobs we don't want to do

This can't be true ! It's Recovery Summer remember ?

My son has had a HORRIBLE time trying to find a job.....he's 17, a good student, never been in legal trouble, has a car and a driver's license, is well groomed, well spoken, polite, but couldn't find ANYONE to hire him. He has FINALLY found a job after over a year of searching, and starts on Wednesday, but I really feel bad for any teenager trying to find work right now. For many of these kids, it's not just the chance to get some real work experience, but I know many whose family is depending on them to help out with expenses.

I'm sure the increased minimum wage may have something to do with it, but in my son's case, he was offered a position starting at $9 per hour, well above the minimum, so it wasn't the case in his situation. What he was told by more than one employer is that there are so many adults who are out of work, that they're inclined to hire and adult with a family to support rather than a teenager still living with his parents.

Could it be that we've raised the minimum wage too much? Employers must make the decision as to whether it's worth it to hire people, and they may be deciding the government approved price is too high. Just exactly why is it government's business if an employer wants to pay, let's say, $5.00 an hour and that's OK with the potential teen and his parents?

Though the economy is the main reason for the difficulty in young people getting jobs the fact that they increased the minimum wage had a lot to do with it too. There was ample warning that this would happen.