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Preparing Americans for the 21st Century Workplace
With employment at nine percent, even graduates of expensive four-year colleges are finding it hard to get jobs. Are there alternatives to prepare for work in a changing economy?
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenWith employment at nine percent, even graduates of expensive four-year colleges are finding it hard to get jobs. Did they waste their time and their parents’ money? Are there alternatives to prepare for work in a changing economy? Also, an update on Japan's nuclear mess, and sexting by members of Congress. It may be shocking, but taking risks with the economy is a lot worse.
Banner image: Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is a Harvard dropout who made it big as an entrepreneur. Photo: Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesJapan's Nuclear Mess Is Still Deep in Hot Water
The melt down of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant likely released twice as much radiation as originally reported. That's according to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency , and it has increased concern about whether the government has really come clean about the seriousness of the accident.
Read the story8 minIs Higher Education Really Worth It?
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook, is awarding $100,000 fellowships to young people who drop out of college. Although he's a graduate of Stanford Law School himself, he points to Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg as Harvard dropouts who made it big as entrepreneurs.
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As Congress struggles with what to do about Anthony Weiner , one Washington columnist says Weiner's "Twitter problem has more to do with the perilous state of the nation's finances than you might think…" "We'd be better off if lawmakers gambled more with their private parts and less with the public good."
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