By: Haydee Perez
“Guide” to Employment.
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The U.S economy hasn’t had any improvement to show that there will be more jobs produced for new college graduates who enter the workforce every year. According to website The Economic Collapse (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com),in 2011, there was an estimated 53 percent of Americans who graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree under the age of 25 who were either unemployed or underemployed. This is a drastic effect for all those who worked hard in school and gone into debt just to get a college education.
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These graduates feel that the system has failed them. They seek help from “Career Counselors” and they are only advised that they should go back to school to “get more education.” This will become a negative effect by causing these students more debt and this cannot be discharged in bankruptcy; it follows you throughout your lifetime. Many of these graduates go out to find themselves a decent job, but no matter how hard they try they can’t. Most of them end up finding jobs that only requires a high school diploma. The employment picture is not going to get better anytime soon. People who even have higher degrees are also having difficulty finding good paying jobs.
Graduation may lead to struggle in the “real world”.
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Most middle class jobs are being replaced by “low income jobs” and young college graduates are the ones who are being hurt by this process. Many corporations are viewing their employees as an expensive “liability,” and they try to minimize this “liability.” This is causing layoffs of many employees even when the corporation is making huge profit. What does this tell us young undergraduates? Will the economy get any better for us or will we fall in the same path as other graduates?
