I've never heard the stat about only 30% of the workplace having a college degree - anyone else seen that statement before and have an idea if she was quoted accurately?
oops - is HE quoted correctly - I read Jared as Janet for a minute there. Gotta be the screen :)
“Too many young people today think the world owes them something...”
To me that sounds like young, college educated folks. I have seen that first-hand in the workplace.
On a positive note, I am filling my pool in my back yard and have some dirt piled up. Neighborhood teenagers have been on me like vultures to help move that dirt for some pocket money. It’s 95 degrees with about 70% humidity but they were out there in it shoveling and hauling dirt and not one complaint. Hopefully college won’t ruin them.
If Mrs. Mitch McConnell hasn’t met enough hardworking American young people, I suggest she spend her 4th of July holiday with our troops in either Iraq or Afghanistan. There are plenty of young Amercans serving with valor and dedication there. Of course there are some duds and bad attitudes among the younger generation, as there are among all generations, but we have lots of young people in this country who would be a credit to any employer.
I’m getting real sick of the “Americans aren’t as good a foreigners” attitude coming out of this administration lately. That’s the kind of thing I expect from liberals, not a Republican administration.
I was a little surprised by that statistic also, but from searching through the Census Bureau's education webpages, it does seem to be true. The District of Columbia and the fifteen states of
have more than 30% of the 25-year-old and older population with a bachelor's degree or higher. The rest are lower; the lowest percentages are in Arkansas and West Virginia, both of which have less than 20% of the 25-year-old and older population with at least a bachelor's degree.
The Excel spreadsheet for the educational attainments of the 25-year-old and older population for 2006 is here. The education page for year 2006 is here.
Sure, maybe young people think the world owes them something, but that is not at all peculiar to American young people.
I don’t think the purpose of Chao’s statements were to encourage Americans to shape up or change their ways, I think they were to soften resistance to the administration’s scheming on immigration policy.
A college degree doesn't mean much from what I heard on Hannity's show yesterday during the "on the street" section. A kindergarten teacher was interviewed about the meaning behind the 4th of July.
She was asked why we celebrate it. Her answer was to celebrate our independence.
She was ask, our independence from what or who......her answer was our independence from France.
She was asked when we fought for this independence.....her first answer was "WW1", then changed it to "the civil war".
She was then asked who wrote the Declaration of Independence.....and her first answer was George Washington, then changed it to Abraham Lincoln.
I still can't believe what I heard. Hannity suggested she not ever teach history.
i was also surprised to hear that there are 115m service jobs. i have heard there are about 140m total jobs in the US... that doesn't leave to many for non service.
Dressing in a professional way seems to be dead or dying skill in an ever increasing number of business segments. From personal observation, the "unmade bed" look seems to be the current business look with exception of a few professions.
I can not help but comment on one segment of one particular profession for which I'm sure I will get flamed, but so be it. It is the ladies in the Real Estate industry that are trying to hold on to the "professional image", however, they seem to lack a role model and seem to be winging it. This is from personal experience where I was involved along with other members of my family in real estate transactions in 4 states, therefore my observation is not geographically biased.
Ladies, drive through the "seedy " parts of your community and take a good look at the "working women" walking the streets and then look in the mirror. You look like hookers. Had we not met you in your offices and had you approached us at the property sites, I would have taken you for prostitutes and shooed you away.
Strange. How did I get a large number of bosses who were more interested in having "a friend" to chat with or an employee to harass because of their own inferiority issues rather than someone who just wanted to do the job?
They also don't seem to be able to grasp the concepts of: I'm trading my time and work skills for money. I don't like to work 'off the clock'. I don't like to be ordered to falsify work results to make the boss look good. I don't like to work until exhausted day after day.