the teen job market crisis

According to a survey from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University released earlier this summer, the national teen employment level is the lowest its been in 60 years. The study showed that employment rates dipped from 51 percent in June of 2000 to 37 percent in June of this year. The Center’s Director, Andrew Sum, said in an article that addressing the deficit is so important because teens who work more in high school have an easier transition into the labor market after graduation. He also said that national evidence shows that pregnancy rates for teens are lower in metropolitan areas where employment rates for teen girls are higher. Some state-funded programs and initiatives are working to ease this disparity. Teenagers in Pennsylvania are getting some assistance from a program called the Technology Work Experience Internship Program , which incentivizes companies to hire students for high-tech jobs in fields such as programming, web desig...