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My First Job: Andy Katz

Summary: 
Andy Katz, a sports reporter and analyst, talks about his first job at a sporting goods store.

Summer Jobs+ is a call to action for businesses, non-profits, and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for young people in the summer of 2012. It's about helping people find their first jobs.

Andy Katz, a sports reporter and analyst, got his first job at a sporting goods store, where he once sold a pair of hand weights to then-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. Katz said Gov. Dukakis used the weights as he walked to the state capitol in Boston.

Watch Andy Katz talk about his first job here:

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