WASHINGTON — For
the fourth consecutive summer, teen employment has stayed anchored
around record lows, prompting experts to fear that a generation of youth
is likely to be economically stunted with lower earnings and
opportunities in years ahead.
The trend is all the more striking given that the
overall unemployment rate has steadily dropped, to 7.4 percent in
August. And employers in recent months have been collectively adding
almost 200,000 new jobs a month. It led to hopes that this would be the
summer when teen employment improved.
In 1999, slightly more than
52 percent of teens 16 to 19 worked a summer job. By this year, that
number had plunged to about 32.25 percent over June and July. It means
that slightly more than three in 10 teens actually worked a summer job,
out of a universe of roughly 16.8 million U.S. teens.
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