The silence of the article on the number 1 reason American teens no longer work summer jobs is deafening; immigrants and foreign temporary workers. I live near Williamsburg, VA and take the family around there often. It seems at least half the employees at the water park are foreign youth; it seems kids from Turkey are the hot commodity this year. Same thing at the restaurant we ate at; all the temporary hires to work the summer tourist season are foreigners. Don’t say this is due to Americans not wanting to work. There is William & Mary Univ in town and I am sure plenty of those students would like to earn some money working summer jobs as I used to.
I don't think a lot of kids these days even think of summer employment at all. In fact, I'd suggest that there are large sectors of the U.S. economy that would prefer NOT to see kids work in the summers. The entire economy of many summer resort destinations, for example, revolves around young people spending weeks or months there, spending all of Mom and Dad's money they can possibly get their hands on.