POLL: Considering Unemployment Issues, is College Worth it?
Studies suggest that the difficult-to-enter workforce is getting harder for college grads, with a higher percentage of recent grads taking longer to find a job than in years past. Should more students be steered to the trades, starting in high school?
The difficulty that college graduates are having finding jobs has been a trend for some time now, but according to a Rutgers University study released Thursday, more recent grads are worse off. According to the study, 51 percent of students who have graduated college since 2006 have a full-time job, an article on HuffingtonPost.com said. "The situation is even more dire for those who have graduated since 2009," the article said. "Fewer than half of college graduates from those years found their first job within 12 months of graduating, much less than the 73 percent of those who graduated from 2006 to 2008. Those who graduated since 2009 are three times more likely to not have found a full-time job than those from the classes of 2006 …
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Brian Dey
4:58 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
John Peterson- Public schools are not without scandal, remember Tom Hicks and PBCG? And not to mention, cadillac healthcare and unheard of pensions, and less and less going to the classrooms? As someone who has been involved in the charter school issue since the early 90's, I've seen the horror stories, but times have changed, revenues have changed and parents and children have changed. And … more ›