NPR: Planet Money Podcast
#306: Germany's Painful Solution To High Unemployment
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The unemployment rate is disastrously high in the U.S. and much of Europe. But the rate in Germany is just 6 percent and it's declining.
We spent a week in Germany learning their secret recipe. On today's show, we hear the how country transformed its labor market a few years back and how it still has the scars to prove it.
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