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...else--and that the new cities are meant to solve pressing economic and demographic problems: with 60% of its population under the age of 25, Saudi Arabia needs to create millions of jobs and homes for young people who will come of age in the next five years. This "youth bulge" will create a demand for 6 million residential units in the next 12 years; that's a million more units than were built in the past 60 years. "When you have demand on that scale, you can't think small," says Fawaz al-Alamy, who advises King Abdullah...
...often Western-educated). Reforms are under way, but it will be years before Saudi universities are churning out world-class engineers in the numbers the country needs. Nor can businesses expect to simply import employees, which has long been the norm in the Persian Gulf economies: mindful of that youth bulge, Riyadh is imposing a "Saudi-ization" program that requires businesses to hire more locals. It doesn't help that employers don't have access to half the potential workforce: despite some recent gains for women, only small numbers of them have overcome the stiff cultural resistance to females going...
...classroom aids, even more modest proficiency goals may exceed the grasp of many struggling schools. Though the intense recession has threatened the amount of funding available to public services, it is still vital that we support our school system. The proper training of our nation’s youth will safeguard our future and provide a bulwark of human capital against future economic downturns. The money we spend today on education will pay dividends over a lifetime...
...ways, exactly wrong. True, he’s leading in all polls; true, enough middle-class whites will swing his way. Some will do it because they prefer his populist economic policies. Others will shrug, close their eyes, and vote the party line.Pundits will credit his inevitable victory to youth, African-Americans, and urbanites, and they will be right: Working-class whites are no longer the Democratic base, and if population demographics continue to shift, their support may no longer be crucial for victory. But if we are to hope for a “new politics...
Despite the enthusiasm for energizing youth voters, no Rindge and Latin students registered yesterday. Many seniors have not yet reached voting...