On Cape Cod anyway, the summer job is back

Stuehmer’s not alone. The rising cost of living for young people, combined with an unusually tight labor market on the Cape , has meant that teens here are working summer jobs at rates not seen for years. Between taking customer orders by phone and at the counter, Isabel Stuehmer, 18, takes a brief pause to banter with her co-workers. Opportunities to socialize this summer have been rare because she’s working two jobs to save up money for college. BREWSTER — Business was brisk on a recent Friday afternoon at the...