Average Teen Unemployment Rate in D.C. is 50.1%, Analysis Shows

Penny Starr
CNS News
Aug 13, 2011

Unemployment

An analysis based on U.S. Census Bureau data by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) shows that the average unemployment rate for teens ages 16 to 19 in the District of Columbia was 50.1 percent as of June 2011. This corresponds with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showing that for D.C. the annual average unemployment rate for teens in 2010 was 49.8 percent.

Michael Saltsman, research fellow at EPI, provided the 50.1 percent figure to CNSNews.com as an update of  an analysis he compiled based on the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.

The 50.1 percent figure is almost double the average teen unemployment rate in June 2007 in the District, when it was 26.2 percent, according to Saltsman.

Since 2007, the rate has increased each year: 29.5 percent in June 2008, 44.7 percent in 2009 and 48.8 percent in 2010, based on EPI’s analysis.

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9 Responses to “Average Teen Unemployment Rate in D.C. is 50.1%, Analysis Shows”

  1. A service industry economy is a bad thing, eventually there is going to be nobody to serve. Everyone is going to be too broke. Unless the McDonalds employees start eating at taco bell.

  2. Not only are they unemployed now, what future do they have now that all the manufacturing is all moved out of the country. There are only so many hamburgers to flip, and what does that do for their future as family heads, anyway? placeofrefuge2012.com

  3. This is part of the ” YES WE CAN ” change that came with the current president . RON PAUL FOR RESTORATION OF AMERICA !!!

  4. the plan is to bring this country down to a second or third world nation and thats what they’re doing. Everyone just says that it won’t happen here when in fact it is. wake up from your dreams and see what the politicians are doing for once. there is no hero in d.c. They follow the u.n. and nothing else. They don’t hear your bleating.

  5. of course there are no jobs they are being taken by illegal immigrants. the same hypocrites in Washington that say keep jobs in America are the same that hire them send them overseas to make themselves wealthier.

  6. How are these children going to pay their mortgages?

  7. Wanted spies, gropers,and fools wanted must have IQ less than a Wal-mart employee, see your local Homeland Insecurity agent, ask for big Bitch when applying.

    This is the job future of America?

  8. Those kids are gonna put down the controllers and start waking up. That’s why the
    punkiticians are going for the jugular now.

  9. No jobs in America Asia Europe.
    only we can find jobs in governments / banks aroud the world.

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