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Teens Turn Thumbs Down on Manufacturing Careers

Despite assertions from manufacturers that they will need a new breed of highly skilled workers in the years ahead and job opportunities will abound for today's youth, US teenagers in large numbers want to wear white collars, not blue, when they launch their careers.

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November 22, 2009 at 09:30 CST

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