WAVES For Teenage Workforce Success

Between the months of November and December of 2009, 589,000 jobs disappeared from the U.S. economy.

Of these jobs, 47,000 (8.0% of the total 589,000) were lost by teens, who now represent just 3.20% of the entire U.S. civilian labor force of 137,792,000 individuals. 57,000 jobs (9.7%) were lost by young adults Age 20-24, who as a group make up 9.0% of the U.S. workforce, while the remaining 485,000 were lost by Americans Age 25 and higher. Read the rest here.