Same problem most everywhere.
Young people have lots of options for summer and after school work in today's market. Even though most on here like to say its a lack of willingness to work, I see lots of young people around who have it together and no problem finding good part-time work.
The gap that I see is entry level manufacturing-type jobs pay about the same as working fast-food or working in a store.
When my son was in machinist school, he found summer work paying $14 per hour. Many FF places around here pay $15 to start and have incentives to help pay tuition. It wasn't like my kid was grass-green with machining, yet many other places start trades people below FF workers. He changed jobs 3 times in one year. Each time getting paid a bit more and the work was better. Yet some companies complain people don't stick around long. Can you blame young people from moving on when they can better themselves?
