Posted on 06/26/2025 11:09:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia.
Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn’t found a job in the industry that surrounds her.
“It stings a little bit,” she said. “I never imagined it would be this difficult just to get a foot in the door.”
Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are facing one of the toughest job markets in more than a decade. The unemployment rate for degree holders ages 22 to 27 has reached its highest level in a dozen years, excluding the coronavirus pandemic. Joblessness among that group is now higher than the overall unemployment rate, and the gap is larger than it has been in more than three decades.
The rise in unemployment has worried many economists as well as officials at the Federal Reserve because it could be an early sign of trouble for the economy. It suggests businesses are holding off on hiring new workers because of rampant uncertainty stemming from the Trump administration’s tariff increases, which could slow growth.
“Young people are bearing the brunt of a lot of economic uncertainty,” Brad Hersbein, senior economist at the Upjohn Institute, a labor-focused think tank, said. “The people that you often are most hesitant in hiring when economic conditions are uncertain are entry-level positions.”
The growth of artificial intelligence may be playing an additional role by eating away at positions for beginners in white-collar professions such as information technology, finance, and law.
Higher unemployment for younger graduates has also renewed concerns about the value of a....
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Chem E was always a sure bet for a job. Tough major.
Cheap labor uber alles
H-1b visa is criminal .
Learn to sell.
Nothing happens until somebody sells something.
All I know is I’m glad I’m near retirement because I hate to sell.
Did they break it down by types of degrees
Engineering
Actuarial
Medical
Ancient Egyptian lesbian art studies
Or anything that ends in studies
Graduating with useless degrees will get you that.
Dude! Those are hard!! You actually have to show visible competence. Not just mess with C++.
Trump bad. Now, what was this “news” piece all about?
They get crap degrees, so they get crap jobs. Welcome to the suck. Your parents or mommy didn’t care to tell you the truth and you just borrowed borrowed and borrowed. Now you’re stuck. Anyone with any sense could have known your degree was crap.
I read an article somewhere that 60% of all 2024 college graduates had already been fired within 3 months of hiring. I think it’s because they didn’t realize they had to have a work ethic.
HOW MANY ARE BRINGING THEIR PARENTS TO JOB INTERVIEWS???
She’s a scarf-wearing Muslim from a college called Capital University in Pakistan.
Why not work there?
The current (and future) crop of graduates face incredible headwinds.
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