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How the US can make apprenticeship work

  With the US unemployment rate near a five-decade low and job vacancies close to a record high, businesses say they are scrambling to find workers. Many complain that large and growing skills mismatches prevent them from getting the staff they need. While the Biden administration has pushed for large government spending increases to support college students and former college ...

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World must lean on Putin to avert nuclear disaster

  It’s not every day the International Atomic Energy Agency dispatches monitors looking like Hollywood action heroes on a mission to save civilization. But that’s an apt description of the IAEA team now inspecting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. It’s Europe’s largest nuclear reactor complex and sits right on the front line between the Ukrainian defenders and Russian ...

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Bankruptcy risk higher for Europe’s airlines this winter

  Bloomberg Europe’s weaker airlines face a heightened risk of collapse this winter as nations that rescued carriers during the Covid-19 crisis focus support elsewhere amid rising inflation, according to analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein. While the pandemic brought few airline failures in the region amid a deluge of aid payments, carriers now face a squeeze from higher fuel and ...

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