Dan Rodricks: Keeping good workers is tough these days

Baltimore business owner vents about the men he tries to help

Steve Appel, who's been in the business of selling cool furniture to Baltimoreans since the 1980s, called me after one of my give-a-guy-a-chance columns. It was 2009, with the recession lingering and the national unemployment rate at double digits. Baltimore's was just under 11 percent ¿ and higher, as always, among guys between 18 and 24.

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