Situation :Teenage unemployment rate increased from 13.2% in 2000 to 28 % in 2011 . For much of the past 60 years, the proportion of 16-to-19-year-olds who held jobs — either part or full time — was around 40%. In fact, in 2000 it was a relatively high 45%. In all, nearly 7.3 million teens were getting a regular paycheck..
Facts:Older workers are not exiting the workforce and in some situations are getting back in the workforce after a decade of hiatus The retail and construction sectors, which are usually key employers of young workers, have been among the hardest hit.
Potential outcome The only plus of this grim circumstances is teenage students are staying back in school in fact the school enrollment rate for 16-to-19-year-olds has risen to 83%, up from 78% in the mid-1990s which in turn can lead us to believe that we might have an increase in skilled labor force n coming years
