More than 16,000 college students from around the world come to work in New England for a few months last year, an influx restaurateurs and innkeepers rely on to round out their staffs. But the federal Summer Work Travel program that brings in these workers as part of a cultural experience has come under scrutiny recently as the teen unemployment rate has soared to record levels.
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