“An additional 35,000 to 40,000 teenagers are forecasted to join Michigan’s workforce this summer,” said Wayne Rourke, associate director of the Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives.
There are just over 500,000 teens ages 16 to 19 this year, and over half of them are expected to join the labor market this summer.
Those years had teen summer unemployment rates between 10% and 12% and there was between 200,000 and 225,000 teens that held jobs.