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Teenagers are flooding the hot summer job market
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Many employers are turning to younger people to fill labor shortages as business reopen. Two teenagers share their work stories.
What one teen worker is looking for in a job this summer
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Aneesha Edwards in Lexington, Kentucky, is spending her last summer before college working in retail, where customer traffic is steadier than food service.
Teenagers in search of summer jobs are in luck
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A tight labor market has brought teen employment to its highest level in a decade.
The pandemic as seen by a high-school senior and his older brother
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“It’s very easy to just stay in your room all day and not let anybody know what’s happening to you,” says student AJ Williams.
The voting power of Georgia teens in Senate runoff elections
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Teens need a little extra nudging to cast ballots, so organizers in Georgia are reaching out by email, phone and more.
Teens haven’t spent so little since 2011 — survey
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Phones, food and clothes continue to be in; handbags are right out.
Money may matter more than age when it comes to teen drivers
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As the cost of cars, insurance and drivers ed has climbed, the number of teen drivers has fallen.
Are your kids at a house party? No, not the scary kind
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The video app!
FDA warns e-cigarette manufacturers about teen use
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They warn the usage of e-cigarettes by teens has reached an epidemic proportion.
Teens are taking longer to grow up
A major study of teenagers and their activities has found that adolescents are growing up more slowly than previous generations. We look at one aspect in particular: they’re less likely to have paying jobs (the number of eighth graders who work for pay has been cut in half). How does that affect them now, and […]

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