43% of last years, 38% the year before. And about 63% live with their parents. THE GREAT SOCIETY!!! Way to many degrees in NOTHING!
Most owe tens of thousands of dollars in student loans from their nanny government, too. Lots of luck, grads. You are starting out way behind.
43% of last years, 38% the year before. And about 63% live with their parents. THE GREAT SOCIETY!!! Way to many degrees in NOTHING!
You mean you didn't get an education suited towards the career you wanted? If you got a creative writing degree, you should be looking for a job...where you write creatively.
Apparently the critical thinking class has been cancelled at the local college. At the very least the barista should be offering a resume writing service to his customers...
“The 23-year-old graduated in 2010 with a creative writing degree.”
There ya go..is this the new fancy diploma for capuccino maker?
“Saw this in our local newspaper as well. Frightening, as we are about to send our first to college. Have you heard about law school graduates suing their universities for misleading them about employment statistics? I've heard Wake Forest Law used to boast a 90% employment figure prior to graduation - it is now only about 10%. Last year our neighborhood swim team had a Wake law grad as our part-time coach. How's that for “underemployed”?
Get ready for huge healthcare layoffs as well. Medicare and Medicaid payments are supposed to be slashed by 27% over the next 3 years. Private insurance uses these payments as benchmarks, so consider it more of a 25% across the board cut for healthcare. Sounds great if you are the payor, not so great if you are a practice owner or manager.
Our neighbor, a family practice physician, just resigned after working 15-17 hour days for the past 4 months with no relief in sight. Reimbursements for primary caregivers are too low to operate a practice, so they are told to “see more”. However, how can you provide quality care in under 10 minutes per patient? Don't forget that you must document every thought, feeling, and action so you don't get sued for “missing something”.
Have you seen how much the electronic medical record, so touted in the last election, has improved healthcare??
Are you wallowing in the savings yet??”
What the hell is a Creative Writing Degree?
But they never report what all these degrees are in. Are they in some technical field or Creative Writing (professional resume writers)?? I saw on BBC where one employer was wanting all the computer design or software people he could find. History or Classical Studies don’t cut it.
I love how the title says “1 out of 2”
It throws people off that aren’t good in math :)
I dare them to write “Half of...” LOL
Good.
Let’s see if they can figure out why...
Well maybe if our colleges stopped acting as leftist indoctrination factories, companies would be more willing to hire. Companies want to MAKE money, not give it to the freakin’ government. Putting “Marxism” as an interest on your resume doesn’t quite cut it.
Obama keeps promoting college education for everyone while also hinting that the government will pay for it if he gets another term.
What percent of jobs in the U.S. actually require a college education?
I doubt if it’s a large percent. It would be interesting to know.
Too many kids have been brainwashed into thinking they have to go to college to get a good job.
For the most part, a college education is overrated, particularly in view of the liberal agenda and the soft subjects being taught.
Obama does ‘his people’ no favors.
Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example
A degree doesn’t equal talent and work ethic. Half of the college graduates don’t deserve to even work at McDonalds.
Submitted here is an example of student reaction to one of his visits this week to UNC-CH. Clearly, this student cannot appropriately relate the facts disclosed on this thread to the campaigning President in Chapel Hill.
Had students been taught that the debtor is slave to the debtholder, and that the role of government is not to enslave people, but to provide a framework of laws to protect their freedom, they might not be attracted to shallow "rock star" leadership, but to someone who would tell them the truth about their Constitution's limits on power in government.
Sadly, the facts presented in the articles on this thread are not presented to these students, who, likely will not find jobs available because of the "taking" and "spending" philosophy of the redistributionist policies of the past 3+ years, and decades of government's ignoring Constitutional limits on spending, deficits, and debt.
To understand why so many people are pursuing degrees (even in fields that make no sense), look up the 1971 Supreme Court decision Griggs v. Duke Power. This set in motion the excessive demand for college education as employers, denied the right to winnow out applicants via such means as IQ texts, sought a proxy. That proxy was the sheepskin. They figured that anyone who had graduated from college possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
I am sure that other factors played a role but this makes sense to me.
I might mention that one additional factor is the maturation of the baby boomer generation and their desire to send their children to college.