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American students have changed their majors
News, Justin Fox, Published on 08/05/2019
» Of the 839,730 recipients of bachelor's degrees in the US in the 1970-1971 academic year, 176,307 got education degrees. Other big fields of study included the social sciences, business and English.
Don't waste energy totting up job stats
News, Justin Fox, Published on 07/06/2017
» Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt made a striking claim last week. The "coal sector", he said, has added almost 50,000 US jobs since the fourth quarter of last year, and almost 7,000 last month alone.
When Big Media Companies Ditch Their Stodgy Parts
Business, Justin Fox, Published on 23/01/2017
» In July 2015, the London-based publisher Pearson Plc informed the world that it was getting out of the news business, announcing a deal to sell the Financial Times to Nikkei Inc and plans to get rid of its 50% stake in The Economist.
Factories not just for jobs creation
News, Justin Fox, Published on 22/12/2016
» Manufacturing employment in the US has been on the decline since the late 1970s. Trade with China and other countries has played a role in that, but probably not the biggest role.
Internet control freaks are becoming a costly drag
News, Justin Fox, Published on 13/07/2016
» Inke is a Chinese startup that enables users to stream live video. It's doing pretty well -- in April, mobile analytics firm App Annie said it was the seventh highest-grossing smartphone app on the planet. The company does face some costs that internet companies elsewhere in the world don't, though. This is from a Bloomberg article last week on China's live-streaming boom, and the government's concerns that it could get out of hand: