summertime blues
New York Teenagers Have Plenty of Time to Make Trouble This Summer
None of them can find work because the city's dismal unemployment rate is approaching 10 percent, leaving kids to fight against more experienced adults for low-level positions, all while youth job programs have been cut. A new report found that one in five New Yorkers between 18 and 24 are neither going to school nor employed, and face a "more challenging and unforgiving labor market than at any time since records have been kept." So that leaves backflips and fighting at McCarren Park Pool.
