Archive for April, 2010
Studying in the US: The Job Market
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In America, May and June are the traditional months for graduations. A listener in China, Jack Hoo from Jiangsu province, wants to know how American college graduates find jobs. Right now the answer is: not very easily. The National Association of Colleges and Employers collects information on [...]
New Study Disputes Depression Gene Finding
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We all know that some people do not seem as emotionally strong as others when life gets difficult. But why is that? A study published in two thousand three in the journal Science offered an answer. The study followed almost eight hundred fifty people from birth through [...]
Obama Seeks Reforms in Financial Supervision
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. On Wednesday, President Obama proposed major changes to rebuild government supervision of the financial industry. President Obama announces his plan at the White House BARACK OBAMA: “So today, my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen [...]
