Youth unemployment is as high as it was in the early 1980’s. Do you think kids today have a harder time finding jobs than their parents did at their age?

Here, most of the fast food jobs are done by hispanics, in fact you'd be hard pressed to find a resuraunt that doesn't have hispanics working there. I'm not racist, but I have seen hispanic managers only hire other hispanics even as local kids apply for those positions.. Maybe it has something to do with being able to understand spanish better, I don't know. recently I visited a friend of mine that lives in another part of my state and there is was completely opposite. Local HS kids were working those jobs but in his town there was almost no farm industry. Maybe that's the difference? I don't know. I'm simply making observations based on where I live and where I have been.

I understand completely what your saying and the point your trying to make. Yes, some HS kids wont do certain things and that's fine, but others will. This is a very complicated situation and my remarks are made based on what I see and hear about.

I don't think it's a fair assesment to say that white kids wont do those jobs. I know they will, and not all white kids are not reliable as you say.

As far as I know, in my state there are no penalties for hiring Illegal Aliens. There are several companies here that use E-Verify but this is strictly optional. We have in the past tried to make it manditory but it's always shot down because business owners don't want to pay for the screening. I think business prefer to hire Illegals because the workers get payed little and wouldn't complain if treated badly. All this serves is to build a system of slavery controlled by businesses that would rather pay under the table or have a work force that will work in bad conditions to serve their masters.

Yes working in a laundry shop is hard work, but I've done worse because I needed the money.


Signed,
A white guy

P.S. I have seen articles of farmers in my state that can't find anyone to pick the fields because none of the Hispanics wanted to do the job... They raised the pay a little and then white students did it. So as much as we love to use the term "they do jobs americans wont" I bet we'll see the day when that's no longer accurate. Not that it's even remotely accurate now.

I suppose it depends on where you live...

I have 3 kids... 2 graduated from college in the last 5 years.

One moved to California - unemployed and unprepared - - he got a job at a major corp in his field of study inside of 60 days.... live in CA for 2 years, then moved to Omaha, where he found a better paying job in his field of study inside of 30 days.

The other, got a job at home in her field of study before graduating.. worked for a year, then moved to Portland OR, for her husband, and had a job lined up before moving there.. then 3 years later, moved back here, and again had a job here locked up before coming back.

3rd child is wrapping up school, and has 3 committed offers on the table for when he graduates. He has worked all the while in college, even changed jobs to get better hours... He has never had any issues finding work paying $12+ an hour while going school.

I don't see a problem - for those who choose fields in demand, and who are willing to put forth the effort to find the jobs.

But ... if you do nothing to be exceptional - or at least above average, then you will end up "hanging out" with all the other average or below average people. And if you choose fields that have no employment potential, then you end up potentially unemployed.

While I did not "have to"... I've changed my career twice since 2000, and had no problems switching, once I decided that was what I wanted to do. And I have the added generalized disadvantage of being an older gentleman.