The Barometer Online

There's a lot of editorial here -- and there's a lot going on now domestically here and there to change the business cycles so they can be one healthy lifecycle of opportunity, change and income for all of us and not one of negative values, condescending behavior and perpetual debt over income.

>> A lucky few applied early to specialty internships that pay, kept a job they've had in the past or had an in with a family friend who got them a job.

..the former area of work mentioned is public-profit and government centered (work study stuff) I think. That's a whole different type of occupation however it's important most for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year fledgling students.

>> However, a large portion of students have found that landing an entirely new job was and is simply impossible this summer. Sure, one would assume that with students leaving for the three-month vacation, there would be plenty of job openings, but the population of Corvallis drastically drops and there is no

This is a west coast conundrum that many independents, economists and a few politicians are studying now.

What's going on is that restaurant, gardening and service sector jobs have not been impacted much in, say, the last 2-4 years since this January I think. However, positions such as morning newspaper delivery, part time and full time jobs at locally owned grocery stores and tech work has been impacted a lot more.

The mainstream establishment media is no longer ignoring or padding a lot of false data in to this disturbing trend of distressed macroeconomics which follow measurable, micro-scale district based formations of work. What the media (not most student media, that is) are continuing to do though is parrot a ridiculously low federal unemployment number which both private liberal and private conservative economic analysis firms point out is mostly artifical to start with.

>> need for those jobs to be filled until the school year. The businesses win while the students, probably spending money in taking summer classes, are suffering.

If you follow work processes and where do the dollars come from then you know that up there ("..businesses win") it's specifically an Eugene, Corvallis, etc. problem. There's a lot of old money around here. In other words, portions of our local economy are perceived by the youth to be a cliquish racket of older, gutless, obsequious and perhaps servile ways of both thinking and conducting business on a routine basis. Unfortunately, that hogging or locking down of resources impedes on or directly interferes with a lot of the free-thinking entrepreneurs here in the Valley who want to do better personally and economically in point of fact of prior work and/or school experience, disability or race and income potential status plus domestic investment portfolios.

>> Yet there is another problem that people in general, not only students, have when it comes to getting a job. People are not jobless due to their incompetence or total lack of experience, although these might be part of the problem. No, a big reason is that E word we keep hearing too much of lately - the Economy.

True. We have an income inequality situation going on here. Not even the meanest conservative Republican disputes that angle.

>> The economy has declined so much in the United States that it is beginning to affect businesses that usually hire young people for seasonal work.

>> Why?

A colleague and I have said that this social skills problem is more a who and what challenge which, given there's an open and transparent business model, leads to the facts of how money is made. Yes, identity, attitude and improving or following up on work skills are important factors too. Adding all the variables together we need Change We Can Believe in at local and global levels of commerce so that the students may understand our example, steal that idea in a manner of speaking and make money too with PayGo that benefits everybody not just a select few using a free market. It is why our collective haves, needs and wants of economics are contextually and inherently obvious to all except the most slow-witted among us.

I thought just the opposite. I have been working at this job 10 hour shifts every day. I am so burnt out, but I have to work to earn money for colledge. Lol I never knew that many teens my age are unemployed. All my friends work, so i guess i'm not aware. Thanks for the blog!