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Summer job market
Coverage of Summer job market in the Nexus archive.
- An 11-year-old is cleaning his neighbors’ trash cans for $10 each—he now has 100K followers as teens face the worst summer job market since 1948
An 11-year-old Canadian boy, Ashton Meyer, offers to clean neighbors' trash cans for $10 each, gaining over 111,000 Instagram followers. His initiative highlights the challenging summer job market for teens, exacerbated by inflation, AI-related hiring caution, and rising living costs.
- What’s Working: Colorado teens take different path to summer jobs: Networking, entrepreneurship and asking a CEO
A Colorado teen secured an AI engineering internship at Iterate.ai through personal connections and technical projects, while the summer job market for teenagers faces its worst conditions since 1948 due to inflation and employer hiring shifts. Employers are prioritizing experienced workers, leading to a 39.1% participation rate for 16- to 19-year-olds in Colorado.