Young workers in the US, in particular, have borne the brunt of the slowdown in white-collar hiring. Unemployment rate for people between the ages of 20 to 24 was 9.2% in September.
The number of international applicants through Nov 1st fell 9% from a year earlier. India, the largest source of international students to US, saw a 14% decline.
To understand the depth of bias against India or the lack of understanding of ground reality in India, one only needs to examine the headlines from Western media covering the protests in colleges of both countries.
US campuses are not just seeing a rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They're in the middle of a cultural war, where a broader political attack is aimed at ‘woke’ ideology.
Court ruled that considering race as factor in admissions violates Equal Protection Clause of Constitution. Dissenting judges argued that race matters in reality & not just in law.
US Secretary of State Pompeo said the Chinese communist party is 'poisoning the well' of US higher education and called for 'rigorous' oversight of students & scholars from China.
Boris Johnson's brother Jo took to Twitter to suggest that foreign students, who are being asked to leave the US, could transfer to UK universities under an emergency scheme.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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