ANDREW GRIEVE, SENIOR AIR QUALITY ANALYST, KINGS`S COLLEGE LONDON: Although you don`t feel it day to day, it`s a cumulative effect. Everyone is exposed to it, from your first breath to your last breath, you know, little kids, older people, people who respiratory conditions. But also, if you reduce it just a little bit, because you`re affecting the whole population, they can have a huge effect, beneficial effect.REPORTER: In January of 2016, London took just over one week to reach its own annual limits of nitrogen dioxide. That`s a toxic gas which comes from vehicle exhaust.RUTH CALDERWOOD, CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION: We see drivers who are parked with their engines idling as an unnecessary source of local pollution. So, what we do is we go out, speak to drivers, ask them if they can turn their engines off. We have evidence that it does make a difference here locally. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning. Hi. We`re doing some volunteer work this morning on air quality on the city.REPORTER: Switching off engines may seem like a small action. But experts have tracked an improvement in pollution levels on the days when air quality wardens are actually active. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, thank you for turning it off.REPORTER: Andrew Grieve suffered from asthma as a child. Now, he`s a scientist who analyzes air quality and one of his jobs has been building city air that`s enough which helps people navigate pollution hot spots.
GRIEVE: I`ve got kind of like a pollution map overlaid on the top of map, which is updated every hour. So, here, I plotted the route from Liverpool
Street Station to Bank Station. There`s a route here through the backstreets, which is 28 percent less polluted than behind it.
REPORTER: Individual actions are creating localized solutions which benefit everyone.
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AZUZ: On average, U.S. college graduates in 2016 left school with more than $37,000 in student loan debt. That`s per person. And it was a record
up from just over $35,000 in 2015.
It`s also a tough job market for young workers. Americans ages 21 to 24 see an unemployment rate that`s almost twice as high as those older than
24. But some of the industries offering opportunities to young workers don`t require a standard four-year college degree. Many millennials
generally define as people born after 1980 are turning to blue collar fields, those associated with manual labor as opposed to office work.
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