From paper routes to fry cooks: What was your first job, and why can’t youth these days find one? - WBEZ Chicago

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Original Load Date Feb. 13, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
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America – and especially Cook County – has a youth joblessness “crisis,” according to a new study from the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute. The report says too many young people in Cook County are neither working nor in school. _Say More_ talks with study author Matthew Wils...