Teen Summer Jobs are Back

Every year, thousands of American teenagers use their summer vacation as an opportunity to become camp counselors, lifeguards, tutors, hospitality workers, and babysitters for a few months, before starting the fall semester with more thickly lined pockets, some valuable work experience, and a tiny taste of the job fatigue that awaits them.

This summer is no exception: new labor force participation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that 43.6% of US 16-19 year-olds were working or seeking employment in July, up from 33.8% in January. However, while that seasonal spike is observed annually, Gen Z have started to gently reverse the overall decline in the share of working teens seen in the past 2 decades... the source of much “kids these days don’t work like they used to” discourse.

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