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Have a teenager looking for summer work? Check out this Wall Street Journal article from Sue Shellenbarger, The Do-It-Yourself Summer Job.

Below is an excerpt from Shellenbarger’s article. Read Full Article

With many towns, cities and business leaders counting on small businesses to strengthen the economy, teaching your kids entrepreneurial skills seems like a good bet.

The payoff may come sooner than you think: Teenage entrepreneurs are doing a surprisingly professional job of turning traditional teen jobs into profit centers, as I reported in my recent Work & Family column. One 17-year-old Texas student I interviewed started a car-wash business at age 14 and has banked $4,000 so far for college. Two Connecticut teens, immigrants from Bosnia, have launched a computer-services business serving the Bosnian-speaking community; they have donated 5% of their $2,400 profit so far to charity. Another Texas teen, now 18, has banked $20,287 from a lawn-care business he started in 2004 with his brother.

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LiveCareer declares, Entrepreneurship At 14-Year High*. LiveCareer sites a study done by the Kauffman Foundation showing that “58,000 new businesses were created in 2009″.

So what does this mean for the economy? More jobs. Siting the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), LiveCareer reports, “The U.S. has added jobs every month, with 290,000 jobs added in April according to the BLS.“

*Click link to read full article.