Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Employment and Unemployment
Grade 9-12
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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Left Behind by the Recovery, Inner City Teens Struggle to Find Jobs
Updated: July 5 2013,
Author: barrel fan
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The jobs report for June 2013 found that among teens alone, the jobless rate was almost 25 percent — more than three times the rate for the nation as a whole. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to young people struggling in their search for work in his report on the bleak job picture for inner city youth.
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