{"id":8170,"date":"2012-06-12T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2012-06-12T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:37:48","slug":"out-of-work-idaho-teens-could-be-out-of-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/12\/out-of-work-idaho-teens-could-be-out-of-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-Of-Work Idaho Teens Could Be Out Of Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5152\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Court Hanson, a college and career counselor at Boise High School, says he's worried about the lack of job opportunities for students.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Court-Hansen.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5152\" title=\"Court Hanson\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Court-Hansen-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Court-Hansen-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Court-Hansen-620x459.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Court-Hansen-220x163.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/Court-Hansen-138x103.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Molly Messick \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Court Hanson, a college and career counselor at Boise High School, says he&#39;s worried about the lack of job opportunities for students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Associated Press<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/more-seven-10-us-teens-jobless-summer\" target=\"_blank\">highlights the problem of teen unemployment<\/a> in piece published today.\u00a0 <em>StateImpact<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/05\/economy-leaves-few-options-for-idaho-teens-who-want-need-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">devoted significant time to the issue<\/a> earlier this year, not long after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing <a title=\"Idaho Had Sixth Highest Teen Unemployment Rate Among States Last\u00a0Year\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/02\/idaho-has-sixth-highest-teen-unemployment-rate-among-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho has one of the highest teen unemployment rates<\/a> in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho&#8217;s teen unemployment rate was nearly 30 percent in 2011, BLS calculations showed.\u00a0 Andrew Sum of Northeastern University&#8217;s Center for Labor Market Studies stresses that Idaho, more than many states, <a title=\"Jobs For Idaho Teens Deteriorated In Last Decade\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/08\/jobs-for-idaho-teens-deteriorated-in-last-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\">has watched its teen labor force decline<\/a> in recent years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/29\/are-summer-jobs-a-thing-of-the-past\/\">Are Summer Jobs A Thing Of The\u00a0Past?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/08\/jobs-for-idaho-teens-deteriorated-in-last-decade\/\">Jobs For Idaho Teens Deteriorated In Last Decade<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/05\/economy-leaves-few-options-for-idaho-teens-who-want-need-work\/\">Economy Leaves Few Options For Idaho Teens Who Want, Need\u00a0Work<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/02\/idaho-has-sixth-highest-teen-unemployment-rate-among-states\/\">Idaho Had Sixth Highest Teen Unemployment Rate Among States Last\u00a0Year<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/AppScn3-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/unemployment-app\/\">Work in Progress: Idaho\u2019s Unemployment App<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;In Idaho, if you went back to the late 1990s, you would have found that pretty close to 52 out of every 100 teenagers had a job in a given month,&#8221; he says.\u00a0 &#8220;Idaho ranked about 15th highest in the nation at that\u00a0time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, Sum says, teen employment began to deteriorate.\u00a0 By last year, only 28 of every 100 teenagers had a job.\u00a0 &#8220;The magnitude of that decline is stunning,&#8221; Sum says.\u00a0 &#8220;The country also had a big dip, but it was much bigger in\u00a0Idaho.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the teen employment rate is expected to sink to new depths in the decade ahead, according to the AP article published today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to government projections, the teens entering the U.S. labor force are expected to decline another 8 percentage points by 2020. By that time, young adults ages 16 to 24 will make up 11 percent of the labor force. While increased schooling is a factor, much of the recent employment decline is due to increased competition from other age groups for entry-level jobs that teens normally would fill.&#8221; &#8212; The Associated Press<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like <em>StateImpact<\/em>&#8216;s reporting, the AP article stresses the potential long-term impacts of teen joblessness.\u00a0 As Boise High college and career counselor Court Hanson <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/05\/economy-leaves-few-options-for-idaho-teens-who-want-need-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">explained in March<\/a>, missing out on teen job experiences could mean that teens don&#8217;t learn simple but important things, like how to deal with customers and co-workers, and how to problem-solve in a work environment.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m worried that there is a group of teenagers that aren\u2019t getting those work skills,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press highlights the problem of teen unemployment in piece published today.\u00a0 StateImpact devoted significant time to the issue earlier this year, not long after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing Idaho has one of the highest teen unemployment rates in the nation. Idaho&#8217;s teen unemployment rate was nearly 30 percent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[46,74,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}