Slashed Summer Jobs Funding Hits Young Workers Hard

The White House is touting it as “recovery summer”: The economy is adding jobs, the unemployment rate is falling, housing is stabilizing and the $787 billion stimulus is working. But it certainly doesn’t feel that way to America’s young workers, who suffer the worst rates of joblessness of any More…

Recession Pushes Young People Out of the Labor Market

While America’s older workers are taking longer and longer to find work, spending, on average, 35 weeks between jobs, America’s youngest working generation is having trouble finding any jobs — and sometimes dropping out of the rat race completely. Tony Pugh of McClatchy reports:

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