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...response rate to post-graduation surveys in 2008, casting doubt on the accuracy of the numbers that have fueled the debate.Still, Director of Degree Programs Joseph McCarthy says the numbers are somewhat concerning.“When that percentage [of students entering the private sector] begins to rise above one-third of our graduates, it makes me a little uneasy,” he says. “But it does fluctuate from time to time.”McCarthy adds that he thinks public service can also be done from a private sector platform. But some students disagree...
...Sexual violence and gender inequality are real. According to most estimates, between one-third and one-fifth of women will experience sexual or domestic violence at the hands of a male friend, partner, spouse, or date during their lifetime. The MenSpeakUp campaign believes that men must play a prominent part in addressing these problems if significant progress is to be made. A society of mutual respect requires men to rethink how they treat and interact with women...
...Japan can scarcely afford to lose part of its labor force, or close itself off further to foreigners. Japan, with its aging population that is projected to shrink by one-third over the next 50 years, needs all the workers it can get. The U.N. has projected that the nation will need 17 million immigrants by 2050 to maintain a productive economy. But immigration laws remain strict, and foreign-born workers make up only 1.7% of the total population. Brazilians feel particularly hard done by. "The reaction from the Brazilian community is very hot," says a Brazilian Embassy official...
...poor rural infrastructure and public services, lack of a proper social security system, and underdeveloped credit markets for mortgage and consumer finance. These all conspire to place an almost insurmountable drag on the government's efforts to get its consumers to open their wallets. Domestic consumption accounts for about one-third of China's GDP, compared with around...
...dealing with the financial crisis, has made significant progress in recent weeks in putting candidates into the pipeline for confirmation. (A list provided by Treasury to TIME shows that people have been nominated or confirmed for all but four of the top 18 political posts.) But West says only one-third of the political appointees to top jobs are at their posts in the Commerce and Health and Human Services departments. And staffing is going slowly at the Pentagon, the Environmental Protection Agency and Homeland Security as well, he adds. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...