The top 10 highest-paying jobs for teens in the U.S.—No. 1 isn't retail or food service
Babysitting may not be your ultimate career path, but having a job as a teenager can build transferable skills for young workers, according to experts.
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The worst summer job market in 80 years has teens scrambling for swimming pool and ice cream jobs
High schoolers haven’t faced this tough of a summer job market since 1948. Rising inflation, higher oil prices, and a slow hiring market are to blame.
Teens can learn more from retail and service work than at a fancy summer internship in an office
A grueling, sweaty summer gig can give kids more grit than they’d get at any air-conditioned accounting internship. And grit can take you places plain old res...
Could violence prevention programs cut teen tobacco use?
Researchers found that for teens, exposure to violence is strongly associated with increased usage of cigarettes and e-cigarettes.
Teen ‘takeovers’ push cities to take action as experts see echoes of the Covid pandemic
Teenagers behaving badly in groups is hardly a new thing, experts said. But social media has made it easier to rapidly mobilize this generation of teenagers, wh...
Teen Summer Jobs Plunge to Record Low
For this summer's would-be burger-flippers, camp counselors, and ice-cream scoopers, the first big hurdle is simply getting hired. New federal data show teen su...
Screen Addiction in Adolescents
It was a quiet evening when I noticed how my fourteen-year-old sister anxiously paced around the house. Her phone was locked away as a temporary measure to