Teenagers Face A Jobless Summer

With school out for the summer, teens are finding all sorts of ways to forget what they learned during the year, according to year-round schooling advocates. But less than a quarter of older teens are putting their time off to its traditional use by temporarily trading report cards for paychecks.

As recently as the summer of 2001, 42 percent of 16- to 19-year-olds worked. Except for a slight dip in the late 1950s and early 1960s, summer youth employment was between 40 and 50 percent every year from the time record-keeping began in 1938 until the early years of this century. Over the past decade, however, each summer has seen fewer employed teens than the one before. This summer's 24 percent employment rate sets a new low.

Why Digital Asset Management Is Crucial For Your Business

The world of business has changed. No more are there huge file cabinets filled with papers and forms. No longer are communications carried out by mail, the letters then stored away to be referenced at a later date. Now, everything has shifted into the digital realm. Communication is done using email, and the messages that are sent are stored on massive banks of servers. Information about clients, customers, and business partners is also kept on these servers. Most companies have websites, and these are maintained and stored online, along with all of the digital music files, videos, and image files that go along with them.

Digital asset management is simply the process of making sure that these things are maintained in the correct fashion. If you are a business owner, you need to know that all of the files that make up your company's information bank are kept safe and secure. You need to know that they are duplicated and stored in multiple places so that a computer failure in one place does not lead to these things being completely lost. The process of managing your digital assets is so important that you would be wise to hire