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No More E-6 Visas for Foreign Dancers

February 27, 2003
Each year, hundreds of foreign women arrive in South Korea seeking employment as dancers or performers. Now, reports have surfaced of women promised decent jobs and then forced to become bar hostesses or perform sexual acts. As a result, the South Korean government has decided to cancel visas for...

Muhammad Ali’s Message: Fight for Your Vision and Change the System

June 13, 2016
Cassius Marcellus Clay, born in the segregated South of the United States, emerged as a boxing legend in the 1960s. Time and time again, he startled fans and the public at large with athletic prowess, charm and expression of personal beliefs with bravado. He joined the Nation of Islam in 1964,...

Economics Wire: 3 Trends Shaping Global Labor Market

August 25, 2017
Technology, culture and globalization are influencing the global labor market, and Economics Wire identifies three trends. First, the internet is connecting more work equipment. More people work from home and other remote locations. Researchers are quickly developing robots and artificial...

Carpenters’ Union Courts Immigrants to Increase Clout

December 16, 2005
The union movement in construction has suffered steady eroding membership over recent decades as employers confront pressure from foreign competition. As a result, the industry turns to nonunion workers to reduce costs. In Denver, Colorado, illegal immigrants are a prime source for nonunion...

Public Misled on Afghan War: Washington Post

December 9, 2019
The war in Afghanistan has been underway since 2001, and confidential documents suggest that US officials hid evidence that the longest war in US history was unwinnable, reports Craig Whitlock for the Washington Post. Those documents entitled "Lessons Learned" were obtained after a three-...

China-US Vie for World Approval

August 22, 2013
Results of a Pew Research Center survey suggest global citizens anticipate shifting balance of power resulting from China’s economic rise. Most respondents in the nations surveyed expect China to eventually overtake the US, reports Bruce Stokes, director of global economic attitudes at the Pew...

The Wall Street Journal on the Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out of Big Ideas

February 1, 2017
Innovations seem to be plentiful, but many developments so far are not leading to “meaningful advances in Americans’ standard of living,” explains Greg Ip for the Wall Street Journal. He adds that “improvements in everyday life have been incremental, not revolutionary” and an “innovation slump,”...

Caixin: Belt and Road Now Leads to Every Central, Eastern European Nation

November 28, 2017
China Belt and Road Initiative is expanding to reach all 16 nations of Central and Eastern Europe. New agreements being signed with Estonia, Slovenia and Lithuania bring “the total number of foreign countries included in the Belt and Road program to 70,” reports Fran Wang for Caixin. “Chinese...
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