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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Andrew | April 25, 2012 A | A
now a new report from the AP based on the 2011 Current Population Survey
data by Northeastern University shows that things are not so rosy for recent
grads:
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.
It doesn’t surprise me that college graduates are struggling given the
state of the economy, but this is certainly worse than I thought it would be
. And of course, being unemployed or underemployed is much worse when you
have a bunch of student debt than when you don’t.
Furthermore, as we’ve pointed out before, it often matters what you major
in, not just having a college degree:
Opportunities for college graduates vary widely. While there’s strong
demand in science, education and health fields, arts and humanities flounder.
This should be obvious, but somehow it seems to skip by many of the major
proponents of college for everyone. Yes, college can be a good idea, it can
also be a horrible one. As Kelman Edwards says at the end of this particular
article, “Everyone is always telling you, ‘Go to college.’ But when you
graduate, it’s kind of an empty cliff.” |
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