Clocked in: How teens benefit from the retirement tidal wave

The Silver Tsunami is the phenomenon of baby-boomers aging out of industry jobs, like utility workers for Pacific Gas & Electric.  But employers say they favor young people, even teenagers, to replace their generations of retirees.  “The analogy is really that if you go recruit someone out of high school or college on a baseball team,” said a PG&E training director. “They have to go through that whole farm system before they can get to the major leagues. Those are our pros.” The detailed story is on Youth Radio.lineman

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