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None of them can find work because the city’s dismal unemployment rate is approaching 10 percent, leaving kids to fight against more experienced adults for low-level positions, all while youth job programs have been cut. A new report found that one in five New Yorkers between 18 and 24 are neither going to school nor employed, and face a “more challenging and unforgiving labor market than at any time since records have been kept.” So that leaves backflips and fighting at McCarren Park Pool.
