Shortage of Employed Teens Offers Clue to Low Jobless Rate

June 19, 2007

Teenagers have been falling out of the nation's labor force for years. Now, a particularly sharp drop in the number of teenage job hunters may help explain an economic mystery: why the U.S. unemployment rate has remained so low despite a sharp slowdown in growth.

By Sudeep Reddy

From The Wall Street Journal Online

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