Teenagers in the U.S. often spend substantial amounts of money every year. Teens buy clothes, food, etc. every day. Many get money from their parents but some work for it. 22% of most teens work in food service. 16% of them you can find doing odd jobs like baby-sitting, yard work, walking a dog, etc. 12% doing manual labor like construction. 8% of teens work as stork clerks or as cashiers. 6% have newspaper routes, 5% do office work and 4% work in retail.
             For those teenagers that do work, on average, they work around 15 hours per week and earn about $5.25 an hour, with boys earning slightly more than girls ($5.50 vs. $5.15).
             Child Labor Laws regulates that 14 to 15 year olds only work between 7AM to 7PM during the school year and between 7AM to 9PM during the summer. Laws also state that teens can only work a maximum amount of 18 hours a week, 3 hours on school days and 8 hours Saturdays, Sundays and holidays and can work 6 days out of the week.
             Laws for 16 to 17 years olds say that they can work after 6 AM to 10 PM, unless they work in a restaurant, then they can work until midnight on Fridays, Saturdays and during school vacations. The maximum hours 16 to 17 years old can work, by law, is 48 hours a week, 9 hours a day and 6 days a week.
             Teens under the age of 18 are also restricted from certain hazardous tasks such as; using meat slicers or power-driven bakery machines box crushers, etc. Teens under the age of 16 are also excluded from cooking and working in freezer/meat coolers.
             Parker Choi, a manager of a Walgreens says, "Most of the students that work here work around 15 to 20 hours a week, only a couple work over 20 hours. I don't think that they work too much, and that's good cause students should be more concentrated on school than on making money." Kevin Saberhoff, a store manger of a Walgreens, agrees that, "Students should put school before work and that t
             ...