Under Bush, kids do not deliver the paper - now usually adults do

[papau]

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-paperboys.artapr26,0,6837799.story?coll=hc-headlines-business

Adults in cars now make up 81% of the country's newspaper carriers. Under Clinton more
than half (57%) of newspaper carriers were under 18, often neighborhood kids, according to the Newspaper Association of America.

[rodeodance]

1. this is the US economy that is bragged about.

[jojo54]

2. Those 24% have to make a living somehow when their jobs

get outsourced for tax breaks!

It's disgusting.

[elehhhhna]

3. 5 years ago those part time Walmart jobs were great for students,

retirees, etc. Now HD, WMart, etc. are staffed by angry middle aged men and women who work double shifts to feed their families.

[cap]

4. same with lawns

and other jobs now done by the illegals...

it seems that there is a general pushdown... outsourced, downsized professional 40-50 year olds staff the big box retail, they push the white young into baristas and waitressing or the trades, (god knows where the American born minorities are getting shoved into --- although I see a lot of grown African American men hawking newspapers on the subway), the illegals are pushing out the teenagers....

the race to the bottom is fun.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. "Adults in cars now make up 81%..."

Well, that will change soon enough. Can't see how delivering papers could pay for the gas used.

Soon it will be "Adults on their kids' bikes make up 88%..."

[papau]

6. True - sadly - true n/t

n/t