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Germany's Jobless Racket.(training and make-work projects)
Simone Richter, 29, has been unemployed since 1997. After being downsized from a public-housing agency, she put herself through half a dozen government-sponsored training courses, from IT for Office Workers to Practical Administrative Skills. They were supposed to beef up her secretarial experience and help her land a job. Instead, she says, listless students spent much of their class time surfing the Net under the eyes of unmotivated instructors. No one she knows has found work.
Half a million Germans are sent by the Labor Bureau to take such courses every year--without any visible effect on Germany's 9.4 percent jobless rate. "They told us from the beginning ...
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