In a 2005 study, it is asserted that “Economic performance in the product market and the labor market of any economy are closely linked” (Vroman 38). This claim may be true, but it doesn’t help to identify the factors that need to be addressed in order to get to work on solving the problem. If the labor market is directly tied to the product market, and the product market is sluggish, why then, the answer to prolonged unemployment—youth or otherwise—is simply to bolster performance in the product market.