Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent  Of
the 5.2 million jobs the U.S. economy has created since 2009,
none -- in the aggregate -- have gone to teenagers. So which
demographic is most adversely affected by the drop off in hiring
youth? And what's the strongest predictor of which teens will be
working as stable employees when they're adults?  By Paul Solman
Black Youth Unemployment The United States has slid in rankings
of industrialized nations putting youth to work. Jobless rates
for young black dropouts are especially high. Photo courtesy of
Pascal Broze/ONOKY via Getty Images.  Paul Solman: Northeastern
University economist Andrew Sum is featured in our youth
joblessness story on the NewsHour Friday. His full picture of
the crisis is essential reading, however, and so we share more
of my interview with him here. For example, if you are a poor
African-American high school teenage dropout, your likelihood of
having a job is -- 5 percent.  Paul Solman: You have used the
term "age twist"