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If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« on: December 08, 2025, 11:46:43 am »
 
If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs      
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday, December 03 2025

Getting young people in the workforce is critical to solving so many of our societal problems.
   
Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z.

Why are they so financially stressed out? One reason things seem so unaffordable to young people is that too many aren't working hard -- they are hardly working.

The latest Labor Department data indicate that fewer and fewer males between the ages 16 and 24 are in the labor force. It used to be that more than 70% had a job; now less than 60% do.

Labor force participation for men even into their 30s is at or near an all-time low. Men without jobs is a prescription for social chaos.

https://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/7480-if-young-people-want-more-affordability-they-should-get-jobs
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2025, 12:40:24 pm »
... or move to someplace not run by NIMBY's.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2025, 02:57:46 pm »
Stop wanting to live a bougie lifestyle at 21 with no job wouldn't hurt either.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2025, 03:21:10 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on December 08, 2025, 11:46:43 am

If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs      
By Stephen Moore
Wednesday, December 03 2025

Getting young people in the workforce is critical to solving so many of our societal problems.
   
Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about "affordability" are the 20- and 30-somethings. That's young millennials and Gen Z.

Why are they so financially stressed out? One reason things seem so unaffordable to young people is that too many aren't working hard -- they are hardly working.

The latest Labor Department data indicate that fewer and fewer males between the ages 16 and 24 are in the labor force. It used to be that more than 70% had a job; now less than 60% do.

Labor force participation for men even into their 30s is at or near an all-time low. Men without jobs is a prescription for social chaos.

https://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/7480-if-young-people-want-more-affordability-they-should-get-jobs

A lot of them have jobs. Unaffordability isn't just a spoiled zoomer/millenial thing. Particularly housing (which as Rino said is due to NIMBY's and other issues). But tariffs take a bit too.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2025, 03:30:40 pm »
Housing (at least in Mass) is all NIMBY's.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2025, 04:16:27 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on December 08, 2025, 03:21:10 pm
A lot of them have jobs. Unaffordability isn't just a spoiled zoomer/millenial thing. Particularly housing (which as Rino said is due to NIMBY's and other issues). But tariffs take a bit too.
Sorry. I have to ask. How much ave tariffs cost you, and on what sort of items?

I'm curious, because I have not felt that pinch.
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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2025, 05:28:43 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on December 08, 2025, 04:16:27 pm
Sorry. I have to ask. How much ave tariffs cost you, and on what sort of items?

I'm curious, because I have not felt that pinch.

I've certainly noticed the cost on items but that predates Trump by a few. Tariffs haven't really helped though, that's for sure.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2025, 07:19:37 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on December 08, 2025, 02:57:46 pm
Stop wanting to live a bougie lifestyle at 21 with no job wouldn't hurt either.


That is the crux. You won't start out living like you will later life after working for years. And that starts by getting a job when you are young.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2025, 07:24:19 pm »
It’s not just laziness on their part.  Things are objectively more expensive - the cumulative result of prior bouts of socialism, including the skyrocketing “minimum” wage.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2025, 08:15:58 pm »
Well, kids are getting jobs, but companies have cut the hours back so much that they are only given 20-24 hours per week, in order to avoid that 30 hour threshold, when fuil-time benefits kick in.  Can't live on that. 

Moreover, a lot of entry-level places just aren't hiring.  So Moore is way out of touch here.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2025, 09:13:05 pm »
 :whistle:  Life is much too hard today, I hear them say.  But life was hard when we were young I say.
The pursuit of happiness just seems a bore
And if you take more of those
You will get an overdose.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2025, 09:29:24 pm »
If someone cannot produce more than what they are paid, they won't get a job. The higher the minimum wage, the higher the barrier to being employed.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2025, 10:18:23 pm »
Quote from: Timber Rattler on December 08, 2025, 08:15:58 pm
Well, kids are getting jobs, but companies have cut the hours back so much that they are only given 20-24 hours per week, in order to avoid that 30 hour threshold, when fuil-time benefits kick in.  Can't live on that. 

Moreover, a lot of entry-level places just aren't hiring.  So Moore is way out of touch here.

That's right... I have spoken to several young lads that have expressed the idea that there's no percentage left in it.

Ten or fifteen bucks an hour, laying down a 30 yr mortgage on a half million bucks is a long, long ways away.  Used cars cost almost as much as new, so trying to get into decent wheels is also hard to do... They are casting every which way for alternatives. That's why I run into so many that are trying van life and off-grid

They're priced all the way out. Why try?
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2025, 07:25:53 am »
One monthly cost that is still way up is electricity prices.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2025, 09:40:34 pm »
Quote from: DB on December 08, 2025, 09:29:24 pm
If someone cannot produce more than what they are paid, they won't get a job. The higher the minimum wage, the higher the barrier to being employed.
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Re: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2025, 09:42:42 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on December 09, 2025, 07:25:53 am
One monthly cost that is still way up is electricity prices.
What policies did that?

(NET Zero, war on coal, war on natural gas, windmill subsidies, solar subsidies, environmental regs.)

It takes time to build a power plant, and many functioning and reliable ones were prematurely retired and now, AI is competing for the capacity out there.
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