(Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor) – The summer job hunt for U.S. teenagers is off to a pretty good start, a sign the recovery in America’s labor market is increasingly reaching the youngest workers.
Employers hired just under a million workers aged 16 to 19 in May and June, according to Labor Department data.
That’s just shy of what they added to their payrolls in the same two months of 2012, which was by far the best summer for teen employment since the 2007-09 recession.
U.S. teen employment was hard hit by the recession and remains depressed. But this summer is shaping up positively for the legions of young people who flip burgers and fold clothes while school is out.
“These remain some of the strongest summer employment figures we have seen since the recession began,” said John Challenger, chief executive of consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracks employment trends.
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