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Feds Investigate Student Exchange Program Accused of Labor Abuses

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How the State Department’s venerable and well-intentioned program spun out of control. By Lois Romano.

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The State Department’s summer cultural-exchange program is supposed to be a uniting exercise in public diplomacy, bringing 100,000 eager foreign students here to work in fun jobs, and use their earnings to travel to fun places.

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