the true unemployment rate is 11.7%, page-2

245,000 kids out of work...or not in full time study.

remember when nttg...kept saying a lot of the unemployed would be kids....too young to have a mortgage ......
so he was correct....

as an aside...from the book by Norman Vincent Peale

attitudes are more important than facts...any fact, however difficult, or seemingly hopeless...is not so important as our attitude to that fact...fact may defeat you before you do anything about it
and this piece....
lack of self confidence, people become content with something less than that of which they are capable....and so they go crawling their way through life...defeated and afraid...

http://www.theage.com.au/national/quarter-of-a-million-teenagers-in-no-mans-land-20090409-a24r.html