Investigation: International Business

Cultural Understanding Dept: The agency issued new rules for the J-1 Summer Work and Travel Program, which brings more than 100,000 foreign college students to the United States each year. It was meant to foster cultural understanding, but it has become a multimillion-dollar international business, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The investigation found some participants working in strip clubs, and not always willingly, while others were put in living and working conditions they compared to indentured servitude and jACKSON, Miss. - The U.S. State Department announced major changes Friday to its premier student-exchange program following an investigation by The Associated Press that found widespread abuses. The changes are the latest in a series of steps the State Department has taken to fix the program since an AP investigation in 2010 revealed widespread abuses. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.