USA Today - According to a Pew report released June 23, employment among 16- to 19-year-olds has declined over the last two decades. Less than a third of 16 to 17-year-olds working a summer job last year. For 18- to 19-year-olds, the summer employment rate last year was approximate 44%, which is still below the 62.6% average rate in the summer of 2000.
Fewer than 32% of teenagers were employed between June and August last year. The current percentage is close to the all-time low of approximately 30% in 2010 and 2011.
In 1978, 58% of teens had summer jobs, the highest rate of teen summer employment. Between the 1940’s and the 1980’s, the all-time low was 46% in 1963.
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