Steamed teens can't find no jobs. (buy, interest, money, wage)
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June 7 (Bloomberg) -- American teenagers looking for summer jobs are facing the worst prospects in five years as retailers and restaurants trim payrolls in response to a slowing economy.
The teens that are seeking employment are not the same ones robbing you in most cases. Criminals are criminals- through good times and bad times.
Don't agree with that at all. Example, in Nashville about 2/3 years ago, there was a woman who was arrested for prostitution. For whatever reasons she was on the news out there. Reporter asks her what happened. She tells her story of how she was a waitress previously, husband was doing some sort of work. Both lost their jobs, both on verge of losing their home. Their last resort was her selling herself. If things get bad enough, I don't care you who you are, you will do things you may not have thought you would in order to survive.
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Originally Posted by Wild Style
Don't agree with that at all. Example, in Nashville about 2/3 years ago, there was a woman who was arrested for prostitution. For whatever reasons she was on the news out there. Reporter asks her what happened. She tells her story of how she was a waitress previously, husband was doing some sort of work. Both lost their jobs, both on verge of losing their home. Their last resort was her selling herself. If things get bad enough, I don't care you who you are, you will do things you may not have thought you would in order to survive.
I agree that, if people get desparate enough they are capable of most anything but I don't consider prostitution to be a "crime". The question is not one of where the teen will be starving if he or she does not have a job. He may not be able to have a cell phone or buy an IPod or a pair of Nike shoes but most rational teens are not going to go out and enter crime because McDonald's didn't hire them. Now, if the teen was in danger of hunger then I could see the point.
That said, I am for giving teens a job and we really need to ramp up the government program that they had when I was in school to give teens a summer job for about min wage cleaning up the schools for next year and keeping up the parks and pools. While I had my own job at a car wash, I had friends that were in the program.
If the teens have the same grasp of English that is shown in the headine, perhaps they should be spending time in summer school instead of working.
You meant *headline* right?
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Originally Posted by KevK
I agree that, if people get desparate enough they are capable of most anything but I don't consider prostitution to be a "crime". The question is not one of where the teen will be starving if he or she does not have a job. He may not be able to have a cell phone or buy an IPod or a pair of Nike shoes but most rational teens are not going to go out and enter crime because McDonald's didn't hire them. Now, if the teen was in danger of hunger then I could see the point.
That said, I am for giving teens a job and we really need to ramp up the government program that they had when I was in school to give teens a summer job for about min wage cleaning up the schools for next year and keeping up the parks and pools. While I had my own job at a car wash, I had friends that were in the program.
prostitution not a crime? Interesting.
Your post deals with a lot of assumptions. I was a teacher for a few years and I worked at a teen homeless shelter. I assure you, a LOT of teens that are seeking employment are not doing so just so they can buy a ipod or the latest PS3 video game. A lot of these kids have family/household issues on the socio/economical level that requires them to work.
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