YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IS DOWN, BUT ARE YOUNG PEOPLE ACTUALLY WORKING?
Apr 26, 2019
2 minutes
VERONIQUE DE RUGY
LAST SUMMER, PRESIDENT Donald Trump was jumping with joy at news that the unemployment rate for workers between the ages of 16 and 24 had reached a worth-tweeting-about 50-year low.
At the time of the president’s Twitter post, youth unemployment had dropped to 9.2 percent. It was later revised to 8.6 percent, then dipped to 8.1 percent in November—a rate unseen since February 1969. It
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