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General News 7/10/2011 at 1:39 AM EDT H2'ed 7/10/11

Teen Unemployment Hits 24.5% - Forbes

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With the nation's unemployment rate climbing to an unexpectedly high 9.2% in June, the jobs fate of 16- to 19-year-olds may not seem like the most pressing problem, but Michael Saltsman, a research fellow at the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), a free market-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C., says research has shown that high unemployment among teens bodes ill for their future as adult workers.

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