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“Thin U.S. Job Market Turns Study Abroad into Work Abroad”

By David Coffey | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — As job prospects thin at home, American college seniors and recent graduates are looking overseas for work, even of the unpaid variety.

Organizations that send volunteers abroad are noticing a significant jump in applications for their programs compared with earlier years.

Applications to the Peace Corps are 16 percent higher this year, and late last year twice as many Americans applied to CUSO-Voluntary Service Overseas, Canada’s largest volunteer-based international development group, compared with the same period in 2007.

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