No summer jobs available for Indian students in America

WASHINGTON: Indian grad students studying in the US are finding the summer hard.

Those who chose not to go back to india for the summer break, hoping to get summer jobs, are finding that for the first time there are no jobs...not even in grocery stores and fast food eateries.

Employers cut 62,000 jobs in the month of june as soaring fuel prices and a slowing economy forced companies to reduce costs.

The us department of labour reported that the economy has lost about 438,000 jobs since the beginning of the year. The unemployment rate was at 5.5 per cent.

Amar, a sophomore student at george washington university, realized that he could not stay in DC this summer and went home to Karachi.

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Saturday, July 05, 2008 |

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