Originally Posted by
TransWorld
What I have seen in affluent suburbs north of Dallas is difficulty finding people wanting to work for $15 / hour. We have seen a big increase in population.
High schoolers do not want to work for such a low wage (partly that their six figure earning parents having enough money for the family. They can buy their kids a car.)
In the recent past, supplemental unemployment payments and the eviction moratorium has made it easier for those without a job to get by.
Of course, pre-Covid, we had an unemployment rate of sub 2%.
Just perspective in another booming area, where people have been moving.
That’s really so sad. Aside from chick-Fil-a I never see teens working anywhere. That’s on the parents though. I don’t care how much money the family has the kids need to learn the value of a dollar.
Kids are involved in too much crap now that their parents say they don’t have time to work or their job is to get good grades or be excellent at sports. GMAFB.
I’ve also heard it’s lack of quality middle class jobs that has pushed adults out of good union manufacturing type jobs to working several jobs once claimed by teens.
Now however, post covid no one seems to want to work the teen jobs for some reason.