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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.
    • tsweetholp
      tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13
       
      All is not lost -at least there is some good news.
    • tsweetholp
      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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Just Explain It: Is America's Middle Class Recovering? | Zelkadis Elvi - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 08 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Recently the income range has been described as between $32,000 and $64,000 a year, between $50,000 and $122,000, and between $20,000 and $102,000.
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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.
Stephanie Cooper

7 College Graduates Whose Lives Were Wrecked by Student Loan Debt - Yahoo Finance - 1 views

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shared by Stephanie Cooper on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
    • tsweetholp
      tsweetholp on 16 Jun 13
       
      Make sure to watch the video at the bottom of the page.
  • William West, 39, thought earning a B.A. in IT in 2009 would put him on a fast track to management. He wound up $70,000 in debt with no shot at a promotion.
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