{"id":135202,"date":"2025-09-11T03:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135202\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T03:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:03:14","slug":"donald-trump-chaos-fuels-jobs-crisis-for-young-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135202\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Chaos Fuels Jobs Crisis for Young Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Youth unemployment jumped to 10.5 percent in August. The chill is biting hardest at the bottom rung, where entry-level roles are vanishing and companies are freezing hiring amid tariff turmoil and high borrowing costs, per a report by <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/10\/jobs-young-adults-labor-market?utm_source=chatgpt.com&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/10\/jobs-young-adults-labor-market?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>. Government revisions show the economy added about 850,000 jobs in the 12 months through March, underscoring a weaker backdrop for young job seekers. The unemployment rate is the worst levels since 2016, barring the economic collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cThere is a pile-up of young people that are looking for work,\u201d Guy Berger of the Burning Glass Institute told the outlet. \u201cThe risk is a lost generation of young people who took a long time to find work.\u201d Confidence is cratering, too. A <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/newsevents\/news\/research\/2025\/20250908&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/newsevents\/news\/research\/2025\/20250908\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/newsevents\/news\/research\/2025\/20250908\">study by the Bank of New York<\/a> found workers put the odds of landing a new job at just 44.9 percent\u2014the lowest since tracking began in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/10\/jobs-young-adults-labor-market?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at Axios<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Youth unemployment jumped to 10.5 percent in August. The chill is biting hardest at the bottom rung, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,1377,73476,46,2443,124,23449],"class_list":["post-135202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-economic-crisis","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}