Jobs For Your Kids

Just reading an article on Yahoo.com about the extremely high unemployment rate for youth. It's called "No End in Sight? The Long-Term Youth Jobs Gap and What It Means for America."

Interesting and somewhat troubling if you have kids just graduating or even looking for "summer" job.

It says:
"The unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds now stands at 16.5 percent, more than double the rate for the population at large (8.2 percent). For Latino youth, the rate is 20.5 percent, and for African-American youth, 30.2 percent. Fewer than half of all young Americans hold any kind of job at all, says the report."

Like the "general" unemployment rate, this one also doesn't take into account those who have given up looking for work and have dropped out of the work force.

Are your kids looking for work? If so, have they found anything?  What are they doing?

Informal poll: what was your first job? (Mine was working at a little recording studio inside of a mall; you could go in and choose from a bunch of songs, then sing with an accompaniment track and we would record you and send you home with your "song" on a cassette. )