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Are Teenagers Getting Summer Jobs-Why? By Derek Thompson

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Are teenagers more focused on school and the future, or are they too lazy to get a summer job? In the article, “Teenagers have stopped getting summer jobs-Why?” by Derek Thompson, he highlights how teenagers are spending more time in school than work. Thompson’s article uses perspective, statistics, and reasoning to be persuasive. The use of statistics Thompson utilizes is opposing ideas and entertains the other reasons for teens not getting jobs in the summer months. While Thompson believes that the summer job is a “rite of passage,” he does look into others snap-judgment that kids are just getting lazier. He quickly shuts down this ideal and proves, using statistics and graphs, that teens are spending more time in school. He proves this
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