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Duration: 55:27 (Full Program)
Program: New Recruits
Broadcast Date: Jun. 15, 2010

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A battalion of jet-setting business students have a radical plan to end global poverty: charge poor people for goods and services. The New Recruits is a hilarious, evocative, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride along a road paved with good intentions. It is narrated by Rainn Wilson, Dwight Schrute of NBC's The Office.

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