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Educated young people in India demand jobs

India’s educated young people are demanding suitable jobs — but those jobs don’t exist. Plus, wages are declining.

This came to a head with riots in some of the poorest districts of northern India.

Raksha Kumar reports from Uttar Pradesh.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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