Summer jobs are astonishing for a teenager. They are given multiple opportunities to learn many life lessons. But due to education activities and employers, their chances have been lowered down to getting a job. According to the passage ´Teenagers have stopped getting summer jobs - why?´ written by Derek Thomas, he claims that ¨Education is to blame, rather than indolence. Teens are remaining in high school longer, going to college more often, and taking more summer classes.¨While Thomas uses propaganda to support his claim that education is destroying the ability to get a job. He relies on linking words to convince his audience to consider simmering down education activities for an opportunity of having a summer job.
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Employers are also another big factor of this situation.“The second reason why teens work less today is that employers are more reluctant to hire them .” Jobs have gotten harder and harder and aren't as easy as they used to be for teens. Employers want the exact right person who won’t be lazy on the job, such as being on their phone checking social media or not helping a customer. Employers also don’t want someone who will affect the work environment in a negative way. Bringing a bad attitude to a job will bring everyone else’s mood down and no one will want to work. “...The number of federally funded summer jobs, where students work temporarily with their local government, has declined.” Minimum wage has grown since the 1990’s, so employees are getting paid more than they might have back then. But sadly for teens, they cannot have a salary because they are under the age of 18. So sometimes they don’t get paid enough for their hard work or they don’t even get paid at all for the work that they are putting in. Companies have also been noticing that if an intern comes in to work with the company, they don’t have to pay the intern for the work that they are doing that day or week. Even though the teen interns are clearly