BUSINESS
July 13, 2012 | By Tiffany Hsu
Had the recession never happened, there would now be an additional 2.7 million jobs for young workers, according to a report this week. Instead, there's a Chicago-sized hole in the employment market for people between 16 and 24 years old, according to nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy group Young Invincibles. And there's a good chance that gap will never close, to potentially devastating effect, according to the "No End in Sight?" report . “The scary thing is that the recession may never end for young people,” said Rory O'Sullivan, policy director for the group, in a statement.
BUSINESS
June 4, 2012 | By Tiffany Hsu
Looks like the mall will be stuffed with teenagers this summer - and they won't just be shopping. They'll be folding clothes at Forever 21, serving up burgers in the food court and valeting cars in the parking lot as the employment market for 16- to 19-year-olds gets off to its strongest start since 2006. Nearly 160,000 teens landed jobs in May, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. That's more than double the 71,000 teen jobs added last May. In 2010, employers hired on just 6,000 additional teens in May, kicking off the worst summer for youth employment since 1949.
BUSINESS
April 25, 2012 | By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Teenagers looking for summer work will have a better chance of finding it this year, according to outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The improving job market, the firm said, has eased competition for the low-skilled, low-paying jobs that traditionally go to teens on school break. The employment environment for high-schoolers and other young folks has made a dramatic recovery since falling to record lows in 2010, when the number of 16- to 19-year-olds working during the summer months was at its slimmest level since 1949.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 1, 2012 | By Rick Rojas, Los Angeles Times
The rows of experiments at the Los Angeles County Science Fair began with a simple question: Is a dog's mouth cleaner than a human's? Answer: It isn't. How about this: Is the closest living relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex a chicken? Not quite. It's the red junglefowl, a wild chicken. Or: Could a sixth-grader build a hovercraft? He could, capable of carrying both him and his mother. But he couldn't figure out how to propel his creation. "I read that some fire extinguishers would work," he wrote, "but my parents wouldn't let me try. " These results and many others were presented by more than 1,000 young scientists whose work for the 62nd annual science fair was on display at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 3, 2011 | Sandy Banks
Heavynle Ceasar headed to New York for college last week. She took one big suitcase, a tiny heart-shaped pillow for the flight and the boundless good wishes of countless strangers whose gifts are helping ease her passage through grief. Heavynle is the Lawndale teenager I wrote about in June after she lost both her parents in one torturous moment: One week before her prom, two months from graduation, Heavynle's father shot her mother to death and then killed himself in the family's condo.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 10, 2010 | Times staff and wire reports
Quintin Dailey, a brilliant but troubled basketball player who starred at the University of San Francisco, was a first-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls in 1982 and had a stint with the Clippers in the late '80s, died Monday in Las Vegas. He was 49. Dailey died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease, according to the Clark County coroner's office. A 6-foot, 3-inch guard, Dailey played 10 seasons in the NBA and made the 1982-83 All-Rookie team with the Bulls. He signed with the Clippers as a free agent in 1986 and played three seasons in L.A. before moving to Seattle in 1990.