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The Trump administration is disrupting career paths for new graduates hoping to work in climate and sustainability, international aid, public service, and the sciences
www.thenation.com
As the class of 2025 enters the workforce, the Trump administration has dismantled career pathways for graduates interested in climate and sustainability work, international aid, public service, and research across the natural, behavioral, and social sciences. Federal jobs are disappearing, and the administration is eliminating grants and agency divisions that sustain university research programs and nonprofits that are crucial to launching careers.
The National Science Foundation, for example, halved graduate research fellowships, canceled some undergraduate research grants, stopped awarding new grants, froze funding for existing ones, and eliminated several hundred grants for focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. In March, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced 10,000 layoffs at his agency, the Department of Health and Human Services; earlier buyouts and firings had already cut another 10,000 jobs.
In addition, the Trump administration effectively dissolved the US Agency for International Development and the Institute of Education Sciences. The administration fired more than 1,200 Department of Energy workers in February, and the Environmental Protection Agency has faced deep cuts too, while its administrator reconsiders a key finding that underpins much of its work.
Well boo-fookin'-hoo. They should have got a degree that did not depend on grifting the taxpayer.
Turns out that we don't need thousands of people to do the work of a handful of automated weather stations and web cameras....Sigh, and that was what ruined my ambitions as a young man to be a lighthouse keeper.
So Much for Saving the Planet. Climate Careers Evaporate for the Class of 2025.
The Trump administration is disrupting career paths for new graduates hoping to work in climate and sustainability, international aid, public service, and the sciences
www.thenation.com
As the class of 2025 enters the workforce, the Trump administration has dismantled career pathways for graduates interested in climate and sustainability work, international aid, public service, and research across the natural, behavioral, and social sciences. Federal jobs are disappearing, and the administration is eliminating grants and agency divisions that sustain university research programs and nonprofits that are crucial to launching careers.
The National Science Foundation, for example, halved graduate research fellowships, canceled some undergraduate research grants, stopped awarding new grants, froze funding for existing ones, and eliminated several hundred grants for focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. In March, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced 10,000 layoffs at his agency, the Department of Health and Human Services; earlier buyouts and firings had already cut another 10,000 jobs.
In addition, the Trump administration effectively dissolved the US Agency for International Development and the Institute of Education Sciences. The administration fired more than 1,200 Department of Energy workers in February, and the Environmental Protection Agency has faced deep cuts too, while its administrator reconsiders a key finding that underpins much of its work.
Well boo-fookin'-hoo. They should have got a degree that did not depend on grifting the taxpayer.
Turns out that we don't need thousands of people to do the work of a handful of automated weather stations and web cameras....Sigh, and that was what ruined my ambitions as a young man to be a lighthouse keeper.
