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Why Can’t Teens Get Jobs?

Why Can’t Teens Get Jobs?
Students packing “Berea Do-nuts,” earning additional funds at Berea College in Berea, Ky., circa 1950. Lawrence D. Thornton/Archive Photos/Getty Images
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When I was 12, I went to work for an organ-repair company—not biological but the kind in old churches. Pipe organs. I was paid in cash. And I absolutely loved the job.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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