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College Grads May Be Stuck in Low-Skill Jobs - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • By some measures, nearly half of employed college graduates are in jobs that don't traditionally require a college degree.
  • companies needed hundreds of thousands of skilled workers to develop, build and install high-tech systems
  • ew technologies may eventually revive demand for advanced skills, he added, but an economic recovery alone won't be sufficient.
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  • demand for such skills has fallen in recent years, even as young people continued to flock to programs that taught them.
  • Brian Hackett, who graduated with honors from the College of New Jersey in 2010 with a political-science degree, is among those who haven't found full-time work.
  • too few workers with the right set of skills, particularly in high-end manufacturing and certain trades.
  • The subsequent housing boom helped mask the problem by creating artificially high demand for workers of all kinds, but only temporarily.
  • College-educated employees also tend to earn more and advance more quickly even when they are in fields that don't require a degree.
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      tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13
       
      All is not lost -at least there is some good news.
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      tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13
       
      College-educated employees also tend to earn more and advance more quickly even when they are in fields that don't require a degree.
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Workers Over 60 Make More Than Colleagues - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • eople who take longer to get into career-track positions, or who start out earning very low wages, may never
  • make up that lost financial ground.
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Liberal Ideology's Price | National Review Online - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 03 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • eft to themselves, people tend to sort themselves
  • out into communities of like-minded neighbors.
  • None of this should be surprising. Individuals and groups of all sorts have always differed from one another in many ways, throughout centuries of history and in countries around the world. L
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  • values on quiet, politeness, education, and other things
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