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Train yourself to avoid redundancy due to technology: Pradhan to youths

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan called upon young people to skill themselves to meet challenges that will come with the change in technology rendering several current jobs redundant.

The employment-income crisis

Reforms of the education and skill continuum could usher in an Indian miracle

Politics heats up as Congress, and BJP go head-to-head

Public can't be blamed for being wary of the current Congress protests against price rise and unemployment. They have too closely tailed protests directed against ED summons to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi

US job growth beats expectations; unemployment rate declines 3.5%

Data for June was revised higher to show 398,000 jobs created instead of the previously reported 372,000.

West Bengal: Cong workers stage protests against price rise, unemployment

Around 50 Congress workers demonstrated outside the governor's residence, wearing black clothes, holding placards and shouting slogans.

Need to boost manufacturing to create jobs, says Anand Mahindra

"Only 40 per cent of the labour force that is capable of working is actually working or looking for work. The biggest sufferers are youth and women," said Mahindra.

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra, other Congress leaders detained amid protest

Congress MPs including Rahul Gandhi were detained at Police Lines Kingsway Camp during their protest against the Centre

Unemployment, poverty on rise as country's assets are being sold: Baghel

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday claimed that the country's assets were being sold one by one, which has led to the rise in unemployment and poverty

US Prez Biden dismisses fear of recession even as GDP doubles down

Joe Biden and top officials have dismissed fears of US economy sinking into a recession as doubling down of GDP growth rates in two successive quarters at around 0.9 per cent did not mean recession

Youth are country's 'asset', but BJP showing them as 'liability': Rahul

"Out of 22 crore youths who queued up for government jobs in the past eight years, 7.22 lakh got jobs, that is, only three out of 1,000," Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.

Chinese Gen Z are underemployed and lowering their ambitions: Report

A perfect storm of factors has propelled unemployment among 16- to 24-year-old urbanites to a record 19.3%, more than twice the comparable rate in the US

Future imperfect

The gradual loss of momentum of growth in sentiments can be traced to the deterioration in consumer expectations from the future

When 'egonomics' trumps 'economics...: Rahul's attack on price rise, debt

He shared a chart sharing such details and said while the government's debt in 2014 was Rs 56 lakh crore, it is Rs 139 lakh crore in 2022.

India can reach 8% sustained growth: Ex-NITI Aayog vice-chairman Panagariya

'I fully support the capex push. I do not believe in sector specific interventions', said Panagariya

Vulnerable jobs

While about 13 million lost jobs during the month, the count of the unemployed increased by only 3 million

Amid record high unemployment, can China employ all of its graduates?

Over the next few weeks, China will churn out a record 10.8 million college graduates. Finding them jobs is proving to be an unexpected headache for President Xi Jinping's government

Statsguru: Six charts show India's employment conundrum amid Covid-19

Business Standard guides you through the numbers you need to know to make sense of the headlines

The flawed rationale behind Agnipath

The global experience suggests a possible ideological basis for such schemes

US weekly jobless claims fall modestly; housing starts hit 13-month low

Weekly jobless claims fall 3,000 to 229,000; continuing claims rise 3,000 to 1.31 mn

India better placed than many others to avoid stagflation: RBI article

The article noted that global economic conditions continue to deteriorate as ratcheting up of commodity prices and financial market volatility have led to heightened uncertainty