{"id":822,"date":"2011-07-03T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=822"},"modified":"2011-07-03T23:25:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T14:25:29","slug":"wall-street-journal-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal (July 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer jobs have long been a rite of passage for teenagers, but the percentage of 16-19 year-olds working has dropped to the lowest level since records began in 1948. \u201cOnly 24% of teens, one in four, have jobs, compared to 42% as recently as the summer of 2001.\u201d This is due to partly to recession, partly to changing parent expectations, but the Wall Street Journal lays most of the blame on the minimum wage which Congress raised to \u201c$7.25 an hour in 2009 from $5.15 in 2007.\u201d As a result, \u201cmillions of kids will spend the summer playing computer games or hanging out\u201d instead of \u201clearning valuable job skills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer jobs have long been a rite of passage for teenagers, but the percentage of 16-19 year-olds working has dropped to the lowest level since records began in 1948. \u201cOnly 24% of teens, one in four, have jobs, compared to 42% as recently as the summer of 2001.\u201d This is due to partly to recession, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[798,797,217,796,12],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-job-skills","tag-minimum-wage","tag-summer","tag-teenagers","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}