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Monday, March 19, 2007

German program gives unemployed community service

German program gives unemployed community service
Rainer Kaspar takes home only $850 a month for keeping the town fire engines ready to roll with charged batteries and full air tanks. But after two years out of work in Germany's stagnating east - where prospects are few - the sandy-haired mechanic says he was grateful to get the post under an experimental program in which this small town's long-term unemployed take community service jobs in return for their state jobless benefits.

 



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