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Need to Know  Self starters

An Oregon plan to spur innovation and halt unemployment. Details

 
 

Program: Need to Know

Episode: Self starters

Oregon encourages workers who have been fired to use their unemployment benefits to start new businesses. The idea is that if the new businesses succeed - and they do at an usually high rate - these new employers will hire workers of their own.

Duration: (9:32)
Premiere Date: 11/04/2011
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


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