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‘We are helpless’: Protesting farmers in India pose challenges — and demands — to Modi
With polls opening this month in India, farmers are angry with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In 2021, Modi made a rare concession by repealing farm laws after they were met with massive months-long protests in Delhi. Now, farmers are returning to the streets. Sushmita Pathak reports from Delhi that the main demand now is guaranteed crop prices.
South Korea’s latest big export: Jobless college graduates
Facing an unprecedented job crunch, many young South Koreans are signing up for government-sponsored programs designed to find overseas positions for a growing number of jobless college graduates in Asia’s fourth largest economy. But the jobs are not always as advertised.
These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.
Fifteen million people around the world have perhaps the worst job imaginable: scavenging junk from the world’s dumps. But in Morocco, a group of trash pickers has made the transition to well-paid employees of a new recycling center. And they hope it’s an example others can follow.
What jobs are going away? What jobs will survive?
Technology is disrupting everything from how we communicate with each other to work life. But, what jobs will robots make make obsolete? Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich responds to the questions: What jobs are going away? What jobs will survive?