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A new way to measure jobless kids

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China’s youth unemployment stats are back...

...and better than ever?

On Wednesday, the stats bureau (NBS) published December urban youth unemployment data – and announced a new methodology for calculating the monthly metric.
The headline number: The jobless rate for 16-24-year-olds came in at 14....