Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO writes that "in the past 10 years, young workers have suffered disproportionately from the downturn in the economy:

• One in three young workers is worried about being able to find a job--let alone a full-time job with benefits.


• Only 31 percent make enough money to cover their bills and put some aside--that is 22 percentage points worse than it was 10 years ago.


• Nearly half worry about having more debt than they can handle.
  One in three still lives at home with parents.


• Young workers are living the effects of a 30-year campaign to create a low-wage workforce. It has succeeded.


• For decades, the far right led an anti-government, anti-investment, feed-the-rich-and-starve-the-poor drive that gave us an era of deregulation, privatization and job exporting."

[The Huffington Post; December 2009]