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Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
Tue Apr 24, 2012, 01:34 PM Apr 2012

1 out of every 2 new college grads are unemployed/underemployed. We need more free trade agreements!

American workers are overpaid.
Actually, they're lazy.
Or unproductive.
No, wait, they're not properly educated.
We need more free trade agreements to create good jobs... somewhere over the rainbow.
Americans getting jobs means mass starvation and genocide for China and India.
Damn you John Birchers for wanting these filthy Americans to be employed!!!!!!


Did I miss anything?


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/22/national/w070232D21.DTL&tsp=1

1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press
Monday, April 23, 2012

(04-23) 01:14 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work.

A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge.

Young adults with bachelor's degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example — and that's confounding their hopes a degree would pay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans.

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1 out of every 2 new college grads are unemployed/underemployed. We need more free trade agreements! (Original Post) Zalatix Apr 2012 OP
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