As Teens Struggle to Find Jobs Some Turn Their Family's Online Shopping Into Real Dollars
Teens currently face depression level unemployment but it didn’t happen overnight. John Williamson, co-founder of Boostapal.com a website where teens earn money when their family shops, saw signs of teen employment issues back in 2008. “As small business owners, my co-founder and I were getting dozens of resumes daily from teens beginning in early 2008,” Williamson explains. “The problem was that they weren’t remotely qualified for the available jobs. Doing a little research we found it to be a nationwide problem. We began to look for a way to assist teens through the difficult times. It’s then that we came up with an idea to put an adult’s shopping dollars to work for a young person in their life.”