It’s the classic chicken-or-the-egg scenario: how do you get employment experience without a job, and how do you get a job without employment experience?

“You get it through the Summer Youth Employment Program,” Alicia Modestino, an associate professor of economics in Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, said in welcoming the program participants to the university’s Boston campus on Tuesday.

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