The Business section of Sunday’s Dallas Morning News included a story about teens’ summer jobs, and one detail caught my eye: Teens whose parents are wealthy were more likely to get a job than those whose parents had less income.
Forty-six percent of white male teens whose parents earned between $100,000 and $149,000 held a job this summer, compared with just 9.1 percent of black male teens whose family income was below $20,000, and 15.2 percent for Hispanic teen males with that same low family income.
So, Park Cities people, did your teenagers earn their own scratch this summer? If so, where?
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