After dropping in 2020, teen summer employment may be poised to continue its slow comeback
Last summer, businesses trying to come back from the COVID-19 pandemic hired nearly a million more teens than in the summer of 2020.
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Last summer, businesses trying to come back from the COVID-19 pandemic hired nearly a million more teens than in the summer of 2020.
Fewer than a third (30.8%) of U.S. teens had a paying job last summer. In 2019, 35.8% of teens worked over the summer.
A recent Center survey focused on gig platform work. Here is more information about how we crafted the survey and what we learned from it.
Union membership has had a somewhat unexpected – but likely temporary – turnaround amid the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
Despite some broad federal guidelines, claimants still face a hodgepodge of different state rules governing how they can qualify for benefits.
24% of civilian workers in the United States, or roughly 33.6 million people, do not have access to paid sick leave.
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