Youth Employment

Maker Lab Teaches Rockets, Circuits, and Soldering

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.24.2012

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Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Youth Radio Bicycle pump-powered rock...

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10 Things You Get Wrong About Summer Jobs

Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Finding a Summer Job, Youth Employment, High School Students Summer Jobs, Finding a Job, Suzanne Kleinberg, Student Summer Jobs, Job Hunting, Advice Job Seekers, Summer Jobs, Slidepollajax, College Students Summer Jobs, Advice, College News

Finding a summer job can be tough, especially with summer rapidly approaching. But we have some advice to help you out, courtesy of career coach Su...

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Arizona GOP Leader: Let Kids Work For $4.65 An Hour

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers in Arizona are pushing legislation that would lower the legal minimum wage for younger part-time workers and tipped...

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A Mountain Of Bad News Around Student Loans

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Youth Employment, Bankruptcy, Unemployment, Moody's Analytics, Money, Student Debt, S&P, Student Loans, College News

Thought the mortgage crisis was a rough ride? Buckle up for the next financial crisis. Student-loan debt may be the next major U.S.-asset bubble to...

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It's Cold Outside... and I'm Thinking of Summer (Jobs)

Sec. Hilda Solis | Posted 03.06.2012

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My parents were first-generation Latino immigrants. I had six siblings. My family didn't have a lot of money. So to get ahead, we had to work twice as hard. And to find a summer job, we sometimes had to look twice as hard.

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To Gain Workers' Votes, Gingrich Slanders Poor

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Poor, Unemployment, Cold War, Newt Gingrich, American Dream, Republicans, Child Labor, Youth Employment, Gingrich Child Labor, Gingrich Youth Employment, Child Labor Laws, Politics News

What America needs is someone who will challenge the entrenched interests and big money that now so distorts our politics. Gingrich offers a man who profits from those interests, while preying on, not praying for, the weak.

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Giving Teens a Place in Our Community

Judith Sandalow | Posted 02.11.2012

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Being a teenager today is confusing. On one hand, we know that it is developmentally appropriate and healthy for teens to seek new challenges. On the other, we don't offer them enough opportunities to be relevant in their communities.

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Youth Employment Shows A Surprising Rise, Though Overall Picture Remains Grim

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.01.2011

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The past three months have been unexpectedly good for young workers. Almost two-thirds of the jobs employers added since August went to workers age...

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America's Young Adults Flocking To These Seven Cities

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Living With Parents, Youth Underemployment, Migration, Youth Employment, Boomtowns, Great Recession, Cool Cities, Youth Unemployment, Denver, College Towns, Urban Migration, Business News

Young Americans have moved around less since the start of the recession. But when they do, they're choosing different cities to move to than before, a...

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World Leaders Must Address Global Youth Employment Crisis

Martti Ahtisaari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployed, Youth Jobs, Youth, Unemployed Youth, Youth Employment, Millennium Development Goals, World News

Thirty percent of young people in North Africa and close to 40 percent in some Middle East countries can't find work. Contrast this with an 18 percent unemployment rate for youth in the U.S. and you see the enormity of the problem.

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AMERICA NEEDS JOBS Idea No. 4: Put Those Young People To Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Youth Employment, America Needs Jobs, National Service, 20 Jobs Ideas, Financial Crisis, Youth Unemployment, Recession, Business News

(Part of Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series; see the introduction.) There are two age groups that have been particularly devastated by the d...

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Youth to See Green with Jobs in California

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth Employment, Green Jos, Economic Recovery Act, Economic Stimulus, Mayor Villaraigosa, Capitol, Pres. Barack Obama, Gov. Schwarzenegger, Politics News

From May until June, Los Angeles is putting another 1,250 youth to work in summer jobs. Starting now our city is placing over 16,500 young people in jobs through this fiscal year.

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