Millennial Unemployment Update
What June unemployment numbers mean for college students, recent grads and the 18 -29 set. What this means for new college grads and advice on how to tackle it.
June Jobs Report: U.S. Adds 80000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate ...3 days ago ... WASHINGTON — The American job machine has jammed. Again. The economy added only 80000 jobs in June, the government said ...
#Millennial #job growth continues to stagnate: #Unemployment rate for 18-29 year olds specifically for June 2012 was 12.8%.- While unemployment remains steady at 8.2%, non-profit advocate for millennial employment Generation Opportunity reports analysis of the numbers for 18 - 29 year olds:
- The declining labor participation rate has created an additional 1.735 million young adults that are not counted as “unemployed” by BLS because they are not in the labor force, meaning that those young people have given up looking for work due to the lack of jobs.
If the labor force participation rate were factored into the overall 18-29 youth unemployment calculation, the actual 18-29-unemployment rate would rise to 16.8 percent (NSA)."
About this source: - Who We Are - Generation OpportunityGeneration Opportunity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to educate and organize young Americans on the challenges fa...
- Media outlets report different perspectives on a scale from better to worse.
Job Market Improving For New College Grads - ABC NewsMay 15, 2012 ... Employment prospects for new college grads are better now than at any time since the start of the great recession, say...
For New College Grads, Jobs Outlook Better but Far From Great - PBSMay 4, 2012 ... Jeffrey Brown discusses the numbers and outlook for college grads with ... And the unemployment rate dipped to a three-...
College Grads Facing Higher Levels of Unemployment - Yahoo! NewsMay 24, 2012 ... From Yahoo! News: FIRST PERSON | As a ninth grade AVID teacher in Davis, California, a huge part of my job is preparin...- Outlook Is Bleak Even for Recent College Graduates - NYTimes.comMay 18, 2011 ... Employment rates for new graduates have fallen sharply, as have starting salaries for those who can find ... The Downs...
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