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Gimaiyo agrees, saying that there is a strong correlation between people’s concentration choices and their ability to find a job in their home countries after graduation. In Kenya, he says, it is rare to find someone studying folklore and mythology, women and gender studies, or linguistics, as those concentrations are not considered marketable...
...degree at Harvard can get a job,” he says. “I don’t think undergraduate degrees affect job factors much, I don’t think there’s a strong correlation...
...tell someone you’re doing linguistics, even here at Harvard or at Oxford, people won’t consider it practical. You want to choose something that’s considered practical back home because at the very least you want to get a job.” Gimaiyo says...
...United States Postal Service recently announced its plan to cut Saturday mail delivery in the face of growing deficits and decreasing mail volume. The cuts have widespread public support from 71 percent of Americans, including majorities of both political parties, even though the projected job losses are undesirable for a country just exiting a major recession. Simultaneously, the reiteration of the USPS’s financial woes has prompted some calls for the agency to fully privatize. We support the Saturday service cuts as an unpleasant but necessary money-saving measure; however, we reject any calls for the Postal Service...
...continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Although privatization is not the remedy to this problem, it is appropriate for the USPS to scale back rather than to build up debt with unnecessary services and then to need to make massive cuts in the future. Furthermore, because the job losses due to cutting service on Saturdays will occur primarily through attrition via retirement and early retirement packages, they will not do the economy too great a disservice. Thus, the Postal Service should continue ahead with its well-researched plan to cut costs but should retain its privileged public position...