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The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Skilled immigrants bring more than just their expertise to job markets. But governments miss opportunities to attract them—or make them feel entirely unwelcome. In America it seems like the standard tip fraction just keeps going up and up (11:36). Where will it end? And as part of our “schools briefs” primer on AI, we answer your questions, starting with facial recognition (18:28).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host |
| 0:14.0 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping |
| 0:19.0 | your world. |
| 0:22.0 | Workers Workers in America's service industries are far more reliant on tips than those in other countries, |
| 0:30.0 | and diners, barflies and cab-hailers are ponying up an ever higher fraction of the bill. |
| 0:35.7 | We ask why this tipflation is so relentless and if it'll ever end. |
| 0:40.6 | And the economist's annual summer tradition of schools briefs is back, |
| 0:47.0 | handy beginner's guides to some of the most mind-stretching topics. |
| 0:50.0 | This year, naturally, the subject is AI, and today we start answering your questions about it. |
| 0:57.0 | First up, though. |
| 1:05.0 | In June, Donald Trump said that anyone who studies in American universities should get a visa as a matter of course. |
| 1:19.0 | I want to do and what I will do is you graduate from a college I think you should get |
| 1:24.3 | automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country |
| 1:28.4 | whether he meant it or would stick to it is unclear but it's not a bad idea. I go to Duke University and |
| 1:36.0 | North Carolina State University I'm a dual student. This is fedora |
| 1:39.8 | Castellino. So I was born in India in 2003. |
| 1:45.0 | I was born in Mumbai. |
| 1:46.0 | So when I was around six years old, I moved to New York. |
| 1:50.0 | Fedora's dad brought his family to New York years ago, but he was never able to The |
| 1:52.7 | Fidora's dad brought his family to New York years ago, but he was never able to get a green card. |
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