Muhammad Yunus: ‘How We Can Bring About Change?’
Source: Huff Post. By Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate in Economics The current financial crisis makes it very clear that our current financial system is not sustainable. This is the opportune time […]
Asylum seekers – a view from the inside
by Stefania Summermatter, Chiasso, swissinfo.ch Europe should rethink its criteria for immigration, according to a worker at an asylum seeker reception centre on the Swiss-Italian border, which deals with almost […]
The number of job seekers rose by 1.6% in September.
Liberation France. Wednesday morning, Prime Minister of France, Jean-Marc Ayrault, announced the results of September as “not good.” Rate of unemployment is up by 1.6% in September. It means 47,000 more job seekers, its the highest since the spring 2009. A french news paper.
AMERICA NOT AT WAR WITH ISLAM, OBAMA -WASHINGTON TIMES
Obama: America not at war with Islam By David Eldridge – The Washington Times Saturday, September 8, 2012 Enlarge PhotoPresident Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Strawbery Banke Field, … more > One day after a disappointing monthly jobs report, President Obama focused his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday on […]
Starving the Future
Source: The New York Times Author: Charles M. Blow America is in trouble. Emerging economic powers China and India are heavily investing in educating the world’s future workers while we squabble about punishing teachers and coddling children. This week, the Center for American Progress and the Center for the Next […]
Export Powerhouse Feels Pangs of Labor Strife
Source: NY Times. ISHWARDI, Bangladesh — The air thickened with tear gas as police and paramilitary officers jogged into the Ishwardi Export Processing Zone firing rubber bullets and swinging cane poles. Panicked factory workers tried to flee. A seamstress crumpled to the ground, knocked unconscious by a shot in […]
Jobseeker total in France nears record 3 million
Franc24: REUTERS – The number of jobseekers in France rose for the 14th month in a row in June to hit its highest level in nearly 13 years, adding pressure on the new Socialist government, which has made fighting unemployment a top priority. Labour ministry data released on Wednesday showed the […]
Rent-a-donkey: Gujranwala kiln worker’s family takes first ever vacation
Credit:ET No need to spend on Petrol – Diesel – CNG. Get a Donkey instead for only Rs 10 per hour. PHOTO: EXPRESS GUJRANWALA: Liaqat Ali, his wife and parents will on Saturday return from a week-long vacation to Murree financed by savings from their rent-a-donkey business. Ali’s mother Rabia Bibi […]
Economist worries ’20 or 30 billionaires control everything’ in the automated future
Souce: PBS Paul Solman of PBS Newshour recently went to a conference run by a California think tank called Singularity University to learn the future of human workers. Solman noted that as far back as the Roman empire, people had worried about being displaced by machines. Emperor Vespasian, who built […]
The British Government Is Forcing People To Work For Free
Business Insider: Thousands more unemployed people will be forced to work for free or lose their benefits under controversial plans to be announced by the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, as the government is warned its drive to get people back into work appears to be floundering. The […]
Language programme aims to boost integration
The Federal Migration Office has launched a language training system specifically defined around the integration needs of migrants. The course will be gradually introduced in collaboration with the cantons from […]
Storm alert for world economies: Change of Times not Times of Change
Russian TV: A perfect storm – such is the general economic forecast from leading global institutions and experts. The US recession and eurozone turmoil coupled with disruptions in the global […]
Projects Are the New Job Interviews
http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2012/05/projects-are-the-new-job-inter.html (Source: HBR) MICHAEL SCHRAGE Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT Sloan School’s Center for Digital Business, is the author ofSerious Play and the forthcoming Getting Beyond Ideas. Resumes are dead. Interviews are largely ineffectual. Linked-In is good. Portfolios are useful. But projects are the real future of hiring, especially […]
One In Two College Graduates Are Jobless Or Underemployed
Source: Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults […]
Iraq’s Shiite-Sunni Divide Growing
Source: Huffington Post Author: Hamza Hendawi BAGHDAD — Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq’s ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in government, their leaders banned from Cabinet meetings or even […]
$106,000 College Education For Free? Antioch College Waiving Tuition For Students Enrolling In Next 3 Years
Source: Yahoo finance How would you like to go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years? Sounds crazy? Actually, I’m serious. Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is waiving the tuition for all its students, who enroll in the next three years. How much […]
The Afghan girls who live as boys
Source: BBC Author: Tahir Qadiry For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh – disguising girls as boys. When Azita Rafhat, a former member of the Afghan parliament, gets her […]
Here’s Why Companies Should Want To Have A Female CEO
This editorial is part of our GREAT DEBATE feature ‘Why Aren’t There More Women In Positions Of Power?‘ During the past few months, several highly accomplished women have assumed the helm at the world’s leading corporations. They of course include Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty, who became the first-ever female CEO […]
Are Men Useless? (Government Says Yes)
NY Times: Are men useless, at least when it comes to caring for a family? India’s recent draft food security bill, currently in front of Parliament, seems to suggest so. […]
The problems facing Muslim nations
By KHALID ALNOWAISER, ARABNEWS I recognize well this is very sensitive subject because human nature prefers not to hear the truth and simply wants to receive good news even at the expense of reality. However, let’s be frank: Most Islamic countries are being left behind in social progress as compared […]