Unfortunately, the military has standards today. The military would be an ideal place to further ones education, learn some job skills, and pick up the discipline that one was not taught at home.
Unfortunately, the government, and its moneyed supporters, are pursuing a "green" agenda at the expense of industry so there are not many places open to employment of said people. And in that, lies the problem. Rapidly growing population and Walmart, the Federal Government, and the Fast Food Industry are the principal employers of today.
The United States, and much of the western world, have entered a Post Industrial Age period and it does not bode well for the future.
