Why Don’t American Teens Work Summer Jobs Anymore?

Why Don’t American Teens Work Summer Jobs Anymore?

The number of teenagers who work over summer break has plummeted dramatically over the past 20 years.

In the year 2000, over half of the teenagers in the United States worked some kind of summer job. Last summer, that number was down to 35 percent. According to a new study from the Pew Research Center, the number of teenagers working jobs over summer break has plummeted dramatically over the last 20 years, and it offers a relatively straightforward reason why: the jobs simply aren’t there. And when they are, teens either don’t want them or are getting beat […]

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