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TEEN SUMMER JOBS

In a time of high unemployment, teens are finding their summer job competition isn’t just the valedictorian with the perfect GPA, but older adults with real work experience. An average 28 percent of Hamilton County’s 16- to 19-year-old labor force was unemployed in 2009, according to Labor Department statistics.