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Article: For Iraqi Refugees in America, the Recession Makes It Even Harder to Find Jobs.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Byline: Amanda Ruggeri
It was probably never going to be easy for Ghassan Ateyah, an Iraqi ear, nose, and throat doctor who has been a refugee in the United States for 13 months, to land a job. But with the deepening recession, the hurdles are even higher.
"You can find a job for $7 an hour or something like this in stores, but that is more time that you will be away from your field," he says. "But even that is not easy to get." These days, as a record number of Iraqi refugees (http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/09/22/data-points-iraqi-refugees.html) flood into the United States (13,755 in fiscal year 2008), many of these new arrivals are ...