Younger workers have been harder hit than most in this recession. Younger as in teenagers. The unemployment rate for 16-to-19 year olds is 29 percent. So college students on summer break have been taking jobs they might normally try to avoid — like flipping burgers or working the Tilt-A-Whirl for queasy kids. And that means the people who usually get those kinds of jobs aren’t.

From Birmingham, Ala., Gigi Douban reports.