Go to school. Go to college. Get a job.
Marry. Buy a House. Have kids.
Wait. Not anymore. You can't bank on a college education at our mighty fine liberal universities landing you a job anytime soon. The market will be flooded in just a few weeks with recent graduates. And let's face it we all can't be in government. Some where , some how somebody has to be working in the private sector.
I just thought it was quite interesting that PBO came to UNC-Chapel Hill today to talk about voting for him, oh I mean, "student loans and interest rates". Ms. Fluke all the way from Georgetown dutifully and right on time tweeted "Don't jack my interest rate".
We're in a mess folks! But no one has the guts to stop pouring the gravy!
This generation wants free healthcare, free condoms, free birth control, mortgage free homes, free college and "Johnny has two dads" kinda life. No wonder we're in a mess!
From Yahoo News:
WASHINGTON (AP) — "The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work.
A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge.
Young adults with bachelor's degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example — and that's confounding their hopes a degree would pay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans.
An analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press lays bare the highly uneven prospects for holders of bachelor's degrees.
Opportunities for college graduates vary widely.
While there's strong demand in science, education and health fields, arts and humanities flounder. Median wages for those with bachelor's degrees are down from 2000, hit by technological changes that are eliminating midlevel jobs such as bank tellers. Most future job openings are projected to be in lower-skilled positions such as home health aides, who can provide personalized attention as the U.S. population ages.
Taking underemployment into consideration, the job prospects for bachelor's degree holders fell last year to the lowest level in more than a decade.
"I don't even know what I'm looking for," says Michael Bledsoe, who described months of fruitless job searches as he served customers at a Seattle coffeehouse. The 23-year-old graduated in 2010 with a creative writing degree.
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About 1.5 million, or 53.6 percent, of bachelor's degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years. In 2000, the share was at a low of 41 percent, before the dot-com bust erased job gains for college graduates in the telecommunications and IT fields.
Out of the 1.5 million who languished in the job market, about half were underemployed, an increase from the previous year.
Broken down by occupation, young college graduates were heavily represented in jobs that require a high school diploma or less....."
http://news.yahoo.com/1-2-graduates-jobless-underemployed-140300522.html
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Put the focus on student loans for the next couple weeks, make the GOP look like the dont care about the students, class warfare. Then onto another issue with the same class warfare stuff, it's out of controll. Hopefully people will start waking up to it and be aware.carpet cleaning Lynchburg Va
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