Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Teen jobs disappearing in city, state, report says

Greg Hinz:
Even before the economy crashed, just 15% of African-American teenagers in Chicago -- fewer than one in six -- was employed.

That's among the starker findings of a new report on youth and jobs being released Tuesday by the Alternate Schools Network and the Chicago Urban League.

Conducted by researcher Andrew Sum at Northeastern University in Boston, the study concludes that youth of all racial and socio-economic backgrounds increasingly do not work, but finds that the problem is particularly severe among minorities.

For instance, nearly 48 out of 100 affluent, white teens in Illinois held a job in 2008, versus just 13 of 100 low-income black teens, and just 23% of Latino teens.
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