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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (36643)	9/2/2009 3:28:35 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

So, I guess your economic plan would have been to "freeze" minimum wage hikes and eliminate capital gains taxes?? You would have been "difficult" to elect.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (36643)	9/11/2009 6:51:27 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 71588

Grim Milestones for Teen Jobs Two months ago, we remarked that 1 out of 5 jobs held by teens had disappeared from the U.S. economy since teen employment levels last peaked in June 2006. As of August 2009, nearly 1 out of 4 jobs held by teens have now vanished from the U.S. economy since that peak. But that's not the only grim milestone for teens these days. Since the current recession began in December 2007, over one million teen jobs have been eliminated, as 1,078,000 fewer teens are now employed as compared to when the level of total employment in the U.S. last peaked in November 2007. Of the total 7,016,000 jobs that have been lost during the recession, teen jobs represent 15.4% of the total, or roughly 1 out of every 6.5 lost jobs. As a percentage of the entire U.S. workforce, those Age 16-19 have gone from 4.33% in June 2006, when total teen employment last peaked to 3.43% in August 2009. Teens are therefore now nearly 4.5 times more likely to have been impacted by job loss during the recession than their percentage within the workforce would suggest. Since teen jobs peaked in June 2006 at 6,244,000, the employment figures for August 2009 reveal that 1,461,000 teen jobs have been lost. Of those, 46,000 were lost between June 2006 and the end of that year. The remaining 1.415 million teen jobs have been lost since January 2007, when the U.S. House first passed legislation for increasing the U.S. federal minimum wage. The last increase in the U.S. minimum wage mandated by that legislation took effect during the last week of July 2009. Hypothetically, with this last minimum wage increase now behind them, teens might soon see their numbers within the U.S. workforce begin to increase, provided no further minimum wage increases are mandated by the federal government anytime soon. politicalcalculations.blogspot.com