How bad is unemployment is the US? Among teenagers we have reached record unemployment as it is the highest it has ever been at 25.5%.

This August, the teenage unemployment rate " that is, the percentage of teenagers who wanted a job who could not find one " was 25.5 percent, its highest level since the government began keeping track of such statistics in 1948. Likewise, the percentage of teenagers over all who were working was at its lowest level in recorded history…

This August found more than a quarter of the teenagers in the job market unable to find work, an unemployment rate nearly three times that of the nonteenage population (9 percent), and nearly four times that of workers over 55 (6.8 percent, also a record high for that age group). An estimated 1.64 million people ages 16-19 were unemployed…

Fantastic and appropriately sarcastic analogy from Sweetness & Light with regards to teen unemployment, when Democrats took control of Congress and global warming.

When did the Democrats take over Congress? And when did unemployment begin to skyrocket?

Luckily, there is no obvious direct correlation between the two. As there is, say, between carbon emissions and global warming. Or even minimum wage hikes and unemployment among teens.


What among other things might be the culprit to teen unemployment? How about minimum wage increases passed by Democrats?