Interesting data on teen employment

Over at the blog Political Calculations (see here) there is a very interesting graph on the July employment data with special emphasis on the issue for teens (click to enlarge).

The bloggers state that:

As a frame of reference, just 4,244,000 teens were counted as being employed in July 2011, as compared to 5,911,000 in November 2007 - the month before the peak in the previous cycle of economic expansion, which marks the beginning of the most recent recession.