Many small carriers depend on inexpensive equipment from the Chinese company. Now they must rethink expansion plans, and perhaps replace existing gear. Source: NYT > Business – Cecilia Kang
Britain’s big squeeze: ‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation. As bus lines are cut and services dry up under austerity, older people are feeling new constraints. Source: NYT > Business – CEYLAN YEGINSU and LAETITIA VANCON
‘You Have Robbed the Farmer’: Rural Indians Are Hurting, and Millions Are Voting
The ruling B.J.P. party has not yet delivered the “good days” it promised to farm voters, who make up half of the electorate. In debt and despair, some wonder if anyone can. Source: NYT > Business – VINDU GOEL and HARI KUMAR
America’s Biggest Economic Challenge May Be Demographic Decline
Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it? Source: NYT > Business – NEIL IRWIN