> “We don’t know to what extent they’re not working because they can’t find a job, or aren’t interested, or are doing other stuff — like going to summer school, traveling, volunteering, doing service learning,”

> What is clear is that those who need a job the most are often the least likely to get one. To a large extent, the higher a household’s income, the more likely a teenager is to get a job.

So it seems to follow that we don't know what these low household income teenagers are actually doing when they've chosen not to work during the summer. It seems to me that this should've been something to figure out, rather than imply that those teenagers are not being productive. For example, they could very well be attending summer school which one could argue to be more "productive" than working.