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Changing Market

Teens Workers In High Demand For Summer - And Commanding Better Pay, Too

This undated photo provided by Sally Rutherford, Billy Rutherford poses in Wildwood, N.J. Rutherford, 17, works at Morey’s Piers amusement park as a game operator. He took advantage of a 2022 New Jersey law change that allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to work up to 50 hours a week during the summer, his mother Sally Rutherford said. AP photo
Addison Beer, 17, center, prepares for summer campers arriving next week at the Virginia G. Piper branch of the Boys & Girls Club where she works, Thursday, May, 25, 2023 in Scottsdale, Ariz. With the job market the tightest in half a century, younger workers are playing a critical role in kicking off the summer tourism season this Memorial Day weekend. AP photo
BOSTON (AP) — Teens have long been vital to filling out the summertime staffs of restaurants, ice cream stands, amusement parks and camps. Now, thanks…

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