(Bloomberg Business) -- Teen unemployment remains sky-high. Itwas 17.1 percent in April. The Bureau of Labor Statistics willrelease the May numbers on Friday, and they probably won't be muchbetter.

But today's teens have something very bigon their side: There aren't very many of them. So as they entertheir prime working years, and boomers keep retiring, they will bein high demand. That's according to Gad Levanon, the managingdirector for the economic outlook and labor markets at theConference Board in New York.

Teens belong to Generation Z, the small cohort coming alongbehind the large Millennial generation. Gen Z is justbeginning to reach working age. Pew Research uses 1997 as theend of the Millennial generation, while acknowledging that "nochronological end point has been set for this group." If the oldestGen Zers were born in 1998, they're turning 17 this year.

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