Addendum

On the back of yesterday's revelation that "46% of people aged 16-24 had jobs in September, the lowest since the government began counting in 1948," I should also add that the Lost Generation knows who is hiring :

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says it has just finished the best recruiting year since the all-volunteer military was established in 1973.

Defense Department head of personnel Bill Carr says all services met their goals for active duty and reserve recruiting and that the quality of recruits improved during the budget year that ended Sept. 30.

He told a Pentagon press conference that it's because the department continued to spend strongly on finding recruits as fewer jobs were available in the civilian world due to the nation's economic problems.

Carr says an example of the higher quality of recruits is that nearly 95% of those coming into the Army were high school graduates, an 11% improvement over the previous year.