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...military contractors and universities. Doctors were needed for President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society medical programs, and they were given preference too. Fewer than 2,000 people immigrated to the U.S. from India in the decade of the 1950s; in the '60s, 27,189 arrived; by the '80s, the number had jumped to a quarter-million. The immigrants often took jobs Americans had turned down because the pay was low or the location remote. "There would be an opening for a surgeon in Champagne, Ill.," says Fareed Zakaria, a Bombay-born academic who is managing editor of the prestigious quarterly...
...over quantity. According to the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, an independent think tank, the U.S. is home to about 26.3 million immigrants, defined as people living in the U.S. who are foreign born and have permission to stay permanently. India's 722,000 is less than the number from the Dominican Republic. Some 15,000 to 20,000 Indians get student visas to the U.S. each year, and many manage to land jobs after graduation and stay on. But Japan gets three times that number, and South Korea double. The only category in which India really leads immigration...
Europe's job problem, most experts agree, is grounded in an inflexible education system, high payroll and social-security taxes and barriers to job-seeking mobility. The resulting high number of jobless--roughly half of whom have been out of work for more than a year--is just part of the story. "There are twice as many people in Europe who would work, if work were available, than there are people currently recorded as unemployed," notes the E.U.'s employment commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou. According to the European Commission, only 61% of European adults are employed...
...school facilities to ease women's path into employment, and more intensive mentoring--or hectoring--of unemployed to get them into the work force. But jobless people over the age of 57 1/2 are not counted as unemployed; neither are 911,000 Dutch people on disability benefits. The high number of disabled--more than three times the number of officially unemployed--is such a stubborn feature of the economy that it's been called the Dutch disease. Tightening disability definitions and other measures haven't cured...
...talked to him about other matters, but not about that.... You know, there are four elements to my relationship with the President, and they are all present.... Number one, we are very good friends, and that's genuine and important to both of us. Number two, the President's personal mistake dismayed me along with all his other friends and most Americans and I condemned that at the time and since. Number three, I'm very proud to have had the chance to work closely with him on behalf of the American people...