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Refugees Paid One Euro an Hour by German Employment Program

Germany is expanding its job program for asylum seekers. But 100,000 new jobs paying 80 cents an hour stirs resentment
  • By Laura Kasinof
  • 16 February 2017
  • dispatch

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