A Red-Hot Job Market Awaits US Teens While Employers Sweat

by The Associated Press | Jun 2, 2022

Talk to other employers in America’s vast hospitality sector – hotels, restaurants, public pools, ice cream parlors, pick-your-own strawberry farms – and you’ll hear a similar lament. They can’t fill many of their summer jobs because the number of open positions far exceeds the number of people willing and able to fill them – even at increased wages.