August 2018 ·
Michael Saltsman and Samantha Summers ·
The News Press
This summer’s 9.2 percent youth unemployment rate is deceptively low--and disguises a disturbing trend.
Nearly 11 million teenagers aged 16-19 have dropped out of the labor force entirely, which means they don't have a job and aren't looking for one. This represents a nearly 20-percentage point decline from two decades ago, when more than half of all teens were in the labor force.
Some of the reasons […]