On April 16, with Trump cutting funds and the economic outlook becoming increasingly bleak, more and more Americans began to pay attention to British employment opportunities. According to job search website Indeed, in the three months ending in March, nearly one tenth of overseas clicks on UK job advertisements came from the United States, marking a new high since the second quarter of 2023. Americans’ interest in British jobs rose 2.4 percentage points year on year, the largest increase in any country. This upward trend is mainly driven by Americans looking for research and management positions. This data reflects that billions of dollars in federal funding for research, education, and infrastructure projects were cut in the months following Trump’s return to the White House.
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