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Over objections from Big Labor, governors of both parties work to ease limits on youth employment.
The U.S. unemployment rate in March was just 3.5%, but among teenagers it was 9.8%—close to three times as high. It’s not unusual to have a higher teen jobless rate, but it’s a situation that deserves more attention from policy makers when labor markets remain extremely tight.
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
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