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Unemployed teens search for life lessons

Unlike a lot of teens, Kendrick Calkins has a job: He helps his grandfather fix old laundry machines.

The teen unemployment rate in this country is three times higher than the adult rate — which is true for most of Kendrick Calkin’s friends. But Kendrick, a 17 year-old from Hayward, California is learning a trade close to home.

In a backyard in the Bay Area, he’s working with his grandfather, fixing washers and dryers… and getting a load of life lessons. Youth Radio sent us his story.

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