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Summer jobs for young people are vanishing with the pandemic

by Associated Press
| August 12, 2020 12:03 AM

Sara Buie lined up a summer lifeguard job to help pay for a new laptop, textbooks and a backpack for her freshman year at Virginia’s James Madison University. But the coronavirus pandemic closed her community pool.

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