What Teens Gain From Summer Jobs And Where To Find Them Now

As another school year draws to an end, teenagers across the country are finding their attention drifting from their studies to their summer plans. That shouldn't come as a surprise, of course. It's practically a mathematical truth that sweet spring air wafting through wide-open classroom windows makes it exponentially more difficult to solve trigonometric equations.

What might surprise members of older generations, however, is that teens' attention is, on average, not drifting toward finding a job. Fewer than a third of people between the ages of 16 and 19 had a job or were looking for one in February – a record low – according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which starting collecting data in 1948.