i notice they never breakout the different programs by unemployment... i'd like to see how many philosophy majors and "fill in the blank Studies" majors vs the sciences are working
Posted on 10/03/2009 6:36:45 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Surely this lag or absence of hiring recent college graduates has absolutely nothing to do with what universities are teaching these days.
Or nothing to do with the degrees offered.
Surely.
Sorry, hit post before I caught the raw numbers vs my percentage!
Read before posting Red!
You're paying for your own stupidity and ignorance. Enjoy your hope and change.
Since all liberals are brilliant intellectuals, that means that a large majority of highly educated job-seekers are liberals. It only stands to reason that since they are going to be seeking jobs in government, in order to change everything into paradise, they should be subsidized while the economy is bad, in order to nourish them while they await their positions which they will fill with their brilliance.
/s/
My daughter graduated in January from A& M and still can’t find a job in Big D. If we move her back to San Antonio, she’ll be stuck with the remainder of the rent. She left the nest and it’s a lesson to be learned that you really can’t go back(but I have a battle convincing you know who about my theory)
Is she unable to find a job in her field, or ANY job?
Unemployment rate,
based on educational attainment,
for jobseekers 25 and older
Less than high school: 15%
High school, no college: 10.8%
Some college or associate degree: 8.5%
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 4.9%
That is exactly the point I made to my daughter - a recent college graduate who has been able to find only part time work. ( I was a little more gentle with my wording, I am her Daddy.) Actually, if we conservatives play our cards right, this can be an excellent teaching moment. It may be these disillusioned young people will become tomorrows conservative base - if we play it right.-—JM
Isn't that what Barry wanted, Spread the wealth around... Oh well, wealth, misery? It's all the same in a socialist paridise.
This is one reason why states and municipalities are being so hard hit. In past recessions, layoffs generally hit the lower-payed, uneducated employees. That didn’t hurt the tax revenues of states and municipalities because higher-payed, educated emplyees were still employed, paying their income taxes.
Now higher-payed, educated employees are losing those big salaries and state tax revenues are taking a big hit because of it. It may be one thing for a $50,000 per year worker to lose his job and live on $20,000 unemployment...its something entirely different when $90,000 professionals lose their paychecks and have to live on $20,000 unemployment. In that case the state’s tax revenues take a bigger hit.
i notice they never breakout the different programs by unemployment... i'd like to see how many philosophy majors and "fill in the blank Studies" majors vs the sciences are working
Those uneducated oafs that didn’t graduate from high school (and the ones who did, but couldn’t afford to go to college) have learned trades and work (GASP!) with their hands to earn a living while the majority of college graduates have no marketable skills beyond those created by government rules, record keeping requirements,regulations, OSHA and IRS requirements, and a host of other government programs that require the educated work of “pencil pushers.”
In reality, they have nothing that actually produces anything for society and now that times are hard, only those who actually produce a needed service or product are in a position of relative safety.
Ahh,yes, “economic justice” at last! And I guess this is what O meant when he bragged about “growing the economy from the bottom up”.
My daughter also graduated A&M with a BBA, but back in Aug. 2008. She has been unable to find a position in her field, but is certainly not lazy, working two jobs to tide her through. A lot of her friends are also having great difficulty finding the types of jobs they anticipated when they began college in 2004.
“in order to nourish them while they await their positions which they will fill with their brilliance.”
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At least they’ll fil sumpin’ wit’ sumpin’ alright. Seriously, people are saying that this is a different kind of recession but it is not a recession, it is a crash/depression and it won’t be over any time soon. This is going to go on for many years, this is the result of decades of doing the wrong things and it won’t be fixed in a few months or even in two or three years. If people don’t wise up and return to logical thinking it may go on indefinitely.
I have been expecting something like this for thirty years or more, in fact it took much longer to happen than I expected so by the time it got here I had gotten complacent and was beginning to think maybe I would be lucky and it wouldn’t happen in my lifetime. There have been plenty of warnings from people like Milton Freidman over the years but they went unheeded, now we suffer the consequences.
Where do those history degrees fit?
As for ‘marketable’ skills, why do you assume that those with a degree don’t also have a trade? You can do both.
A degree in almost anything in the medical field will get you many job offers. If you opted to get a degree in English Lit and French Art, you should expect to flip burgers.
Career planning, and your college course selection, should involve looking at what jobs will be available, and what their starting pay is going to be.
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