Jobs

Large group of Indian farmers sitting on a green ground outside

‘We are helpless’: Protesting farmers in India pose challenges — and demands — to Modi

With polls opening this month in India, farmers are angry with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In 2021, Modi made a rare concession by repealing farm laws after they were met with massive months-long protests in Delhi. Now, farmers are returning to the streets. Sushmita Pathak reports from Delhi that the main demand now is guaranteed crop prices.

People sit along Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador.

El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment rides on choppy seas as currency fluctuates

Economics
A worker fills up a plastic container with gasoline at a gas station in Pasay, Philippines, Oct. 11, 2022.

Record-breaking inflation rates in the Philippines are pushing people to take on extra jobs

About one-third of the staff at the Stoneacre restaurants in Newport, Rhode Island, is from overseas.

Hospitality industries in the US struggle to find workers, but international labor is ticking up

Jobs
A man passes by a wall displaying an urban art project in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu, Romania, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. 

‘The best is yet to come’: Thousands of Bulgarians return home during pandemic

Migration
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris at a Democratic primary debate.

As the American wage gap grows, workers of color are being left behind

Not everyone’s a winner when tech jobs come to town. Find out how the wage gap between Americans has grown — and what that means for people of color.

A man walks along corridor between booths

South Korea’s latest big export: Jobless college graduates

Facing an unprecedented job crunch, many young South Koreans are signing up for government-sponsored programs designed to find overseas positions for a growing number of jobless college graduates in Asia’s fourth largest economy. But the jobs are not always as advertised.

Najat Rabat and Yassine Mazzout used to work picking trash from a landfill outside Morocco's capital. Now they work together at a new recycling cooperative.

These trash pickers used to have miserable jobs. Now they run their own recycling cooperative.

Jobs

Fifteen million people around the world have perhaps the worst job imaginable: scavenging junk from the world’s dumps. But in Morocco, a group of trash pickers has made the transition to well-paid employees of a new recycling center. And they hope it’s an example others can follow.

Trump coal supporter

Coal country is pinning its hopes on Trump

Conflict

President Donald Trump has promised to bring back coal miners’ jobs and reopen the mines, attracting broad support in Pennsylvania’s coal country.

The World

What jobs are going away? What jobs will survive?

Business

Technology is disrupting everything from how we communicate with each other to work life. But, what jobs will robots make make obsolete? Former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich responds to the questions: What jobs are going away? What jobs will survive?