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There could be fewer summer jobs available for teenagers this year

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When Rich Harrill was 17, his dad came to him one day just after the school year ended.

“And he said, ‘Be ready in the morning.’ I said, ‘Where are we going?’ He said, ‘Don’t worry about it,’” he said.

The next day, Harrill’s dad dropped him off at a peach farm on the edge of their town in South Carolina. That’s where Harrill worked for the next seven summers. “Working in the shed, working in the field — whatever was needed.”

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