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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Employment

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
National Journal | Should the U.S. Adopt the German Model of Apprenticeships?
Germany is all the rage these days as a model for possible economic solutions. The country boasts an 8-percent youth unemployment rate, a data point that looks practically quaint compared to the U.S. teen unemployment rate of more than 20 percent.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
WSJ | Finding a Full-Time Job May Get Easier, But Not for Everyone
Some 7.4 million Americans last month were working part-time jobs because they couldn’t find full-time work. Many of them will have better luck as the economy improves, but others could be locked out by the changing nature of the U.S. economy, four Federal Reserve economists argue in a new analysis.