Testing the Job Market ; High School Students Organize a Research Project to Find Out What Kind of Employment Young People From Immigrant Families Can Expect.

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Sitting in a room just above the street in Riverton Park, there's a scene best described as organized chaos.

Akram Abdullah, lanky even in an Atlanta Falcons jersey, is hungry. On the other side of the room Larry Thath has gotten hold of someone's thin metal bracelets. Holding them to his ear, he jokes, "I'm Mr. T!"

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Testing the Job Market ; High School Students Organize a Research Project to Find Out What Kind of Employment Young People From Immigrant Families Can Expect.

Meanwhile, Lakena Ok is talking about "guinea pigs."

The group of teenagers needs guinea pigs, or test subjects, for the one-of-a-kind research project they are conducting on jobs in the Portland area....

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