It’s summer hiring season, but the kids aren’t lining up for jobs. To borrow a term from Joe Pesci in “My Cousin Vinny,” what’s wrong with this generation of “yutes”?

The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that only 35% of teenagers are working or looking for a job. That’s down from 50% or more throughout most of the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.

This is deeply troubling. As we’ve said about 100 times in the HOTLINE, teen employment is highly associated with later success, even if the job is just lifeguarding or scooping ice cream. Young people learn the Woody Allen rule that “90% of life is just showing up” in these first jobs, and we blame pampering parents (we’re guilty too) for not teaching them that.

One employer recently lamented to us that a 19 year old woke/entitled kid asked on the first day on the job: “Where’s the transgender bathroom?” That relationship didn’t end well.