On: The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen from 61 to 51

[realtalk_sp]

Yea it's not useful. This could be the result of positive forces such as more kids going to university instead of entering the work force (improvement in educational attainment) and/or people able and choosing to retire earlier OR of very negative forces, as they seem to imply.

Rolling the statistics up to the population level is not the best way to look at this. They should have broken out the trends by age bracket. Pretty shoddy journalism.

[baybal2 → realtalk_sp]

Yes, less experienced workers, and workers from more liquid now industries (which also tend to be younger) are more expendable by the definition.

But youth unemployment still really sucks. Good first job is critical to success in life.