The unemployment rate is so high because so many younger Americans entering the work place are un-educated highschool drop outs with out proper skills. These deadbeats are going to take us all down, if it's any single group of peoples fault.

Then there's the under trained older generation that is just simply out of touch with current technology, but they'll all be out of the picture in the next 10 years, so you can't soley blame it on them.