There is a Parallel Here to When the Slaves Were Freed, But No One Told Them They Were Not Freed From Work

The Freedom Expectation for freed slaves took the unfortunate twist that the slave thought freedom from bondage also meant freedom from work. It was irresponsible and caused problems that still plague America. Booker T. Washington understood the problem and addressed it. Unfortunately, the irresponsible Socialist path proselytized by W. E. B. Du Bois, being the easier, but least responsible path, was more widely exploited and accepted. m/r

Survey reveals Germany’s top companies employ just 54 refugees

Findings show challenge of integrating migrants into labour force

by: Guy Chazan in Berlin and Patrick McGee in Frankfurt  July 15, 2016

Germany’s deputy chancellor has written to bosses of the country’s leading companies demanding they hire more refugees, after a survey found they had taken on a grand total of just 54.

About 1m migrants arrived in Germany last year, about a third of them refugees from Syria. Angela Merkel’s government has made it a priority to integrate them into the German labour market as quickly as possible.
But despite the large number of vacancies in the German jobs market — 665,000 in June — it has proven harder than expected to recruit the refugees into the workforce. ..

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