{"id":10660,"date":"2014-06-26T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:22:53","slug":"youth-unemployment-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/06\/26\/youth-unemployment-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth unemployment: for real?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week we kicked off a series of posts exploring youth unemployment with an inspiring introduction<\/a> to the (dis-) encouraging situation. If that isn’t enough to keep your eyeballs, then you’re heartless.<\/p>\n

Youth unemployment is NOT a myth.<\/p>\n

Everyone talks about it, but does anyone have the real facts and figures? It reminds me of politics\u2014I\u2019m all talk until I\u2019m expected to explain how the Electoral College goes down.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s give this conversation some context. As of July 2013, the youth unemployment rate was 16.3 percent. That is double the national unemployment rate for people over 25 years old.<\/p>\n

For those youth who are employed, the most common industry they can be spotted in is \u201cleisure and hospitality\u201d followed by \u201cretail trade.\u201d After a process of pestering our station manager Ellen for this position, I feel lucky to have become an outlier in this labor force.<\/p>\n

My simple and elegant title, NCPR intern, will soon be re-stated as \u201cFeatures Reporter Assistant and Intermediate Web Content Producer\/Coffee Bean Grinder\u201d. I\u2019m doing big things.<\/p>\n

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\nIt seems spot on that youth are either working in restaurants or retail, but, as you can tell, youth labor force participation has been in steady decline.<\/p>\n

Since we aren’t working, we have gone into hiding.<\/p>\n

Where? Why not the most rent-free, enabling environment we could find. My gracious father placed a six month maximum on post-grad stay-time in our family home. This system has worked for all the siblings before me. Scare tactics are real, and they work.<\/p>\n

In a New York Times article<\/a>, a not so recent graduate of the boomerang generation explains her short journey from Loyola University, Chicago back to her hometown of Downers Grove, Illinois. The Times reminded us that \u201cOne in five people in their 20s and early 30s is currently living with his or her parents.\u201d In order to not be misleading, Chicago does have the highest unemployment rate, 16.9%, out of the 50 largest cities.<\/a><\/p>\n

The windy city is suffering, but so are we in the North Country. Out of New York State Counties,<\/a> Bronx County has the highest unemployment rate clocking in at 12.1%, while St. Lawrence County comes in at a close second with 9.8%.<\/p>\n

Naturally, let\u2019s point fingers! Are student loans to blame? Or, the lingering aftermath of the 2008 recession? Or youth themselves\u2014too eager or feeling entitled? I’ll place my bets on a lethal concoction of everything bad, ever, that happened to the labor force and economy.<\/p>\n

How do student loans affect your job search? Or are they hindering your optimism before you even have a chance to graduate? Let\u2019s get a conversation going about this, and in two short weeks I\u2019ll be back to give you a pat on the back and tell you \u201cit all might work out for us?!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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