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All-TigerNet [11024]
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So hows that 2-1 for Obama under age 25 voters working out?
Apr 23, 2012, 10:11 AM
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welllll... not so well it seems.... ________________________
Young Americans graduating from college are facing the grimmest job prospects in more than ten years. According to a an analysis of a 2011 Current Population Survey data, roughly 1.5 million, or 53.6 %, of new graduates under 25 last year were jobless or underemployed. In 2000, that statistic was 41%.
Many mid-level jobs have been eliminated, and the jobs that will be available in the near-future are in lower-skilled positions. The worst unemployment figures came from the Mountain West, where 3 out of every 5 graduates couldn’t find work. The best place to find work, predictably enough, was in Rick Perry’s Texas. Out of the 1.5 million who languished in the job market, about half were underemployed, an increase from the previous year.
The figures show that the majority of jobs available to graduates required nothing greater than a high school diploma. Jobs such as waiters, waitresses, bartenders, receptionists or and retail clerks outnumbered higher-skilled jobs like engineers, physicists, chemists, mathematicians and computer professionals by more than 25%. The graduates that faced the bleakest job prospects were those in the fields of the humanities and anthropology. Complicating the picture are the immigrants from other countries who are well-educated as well as the plethora of graduates with bachelor’s degrees.
All of this bad news for the 18-25 year-old age group is an opportunity for the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney. Recent polls show the American public trusts him more on the economy than Barack Obama, and if Romney can appeal to young voters based on their current job travails, he may be able to win the youth vote to his side.
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lol omg lmao
Apr 23, 2012, 10:17 AM
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"The graduates that faced the bleakest job prospects were those in the fields of the humanities and anthropology."
Oh, you mean English majors are having a hard time finding work? Astonishing!
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Don't be dissin' us English majors, fool.
Apr 24, 2012, 11:08 AM
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But yeah... my roommate, who lost his scholarship his freshman year and then financed his entire degree (English), is now a cashier at a tea joint.
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110%er [5156]
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Re: Don't be dissin' us English majors, fool.
Apr 24, 2012, 11:09 AM
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Guess I should clarify, former roomie.
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he will buy their votes with studen loan forgiveness
Apr 23, 2012, 10:29 AM
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problem solved....
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Oculus Spirit [83127]
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That ain't going to happen.***
Apr 23, 2012, 11:01 AM
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he will take full credit for "trying"***
Apr 23, 2012, 11:18 AM
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Re: he will buy their votes with studen loan forgiveness
Apr 23, 2012, 9:46 PM
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don`t put anything past that #%@#^#$ in Washington!! he will waste as much tax $$$ as he can so he can complete the destruction of the USA!!!!
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Oculus Spirit [83127]
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Yep, the job market would have been much better under McCain
Apr 23, 2012, 11:00 AM
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/Palin.
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Yes it would.No stupid stimulus,...no health care
Apr 23, 2012, 11:04 AM
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no energy shutdown....etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc et al
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a "stable regulatory environment" is what industry looks for
Apr 23, 2012, 11:21 AM
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The "unknown" factor in the Obama Administration is the main thing that is Killing the economy.
In layman's terms "What is that stupid S.O.B. gonna throw at us next.
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Re: a "stable regulatory environment" is what industry looks for
Apr 23, 2012, 9:49 PM
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whatever that #$%^@#^## can do to complete his goal of destroying the USA
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Stimulus didnt stimulate..Just added to the debt.
Apr 23, 2012, 7:24 PM
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sucked money away from the private economy as most of the stimulus went to states. A tax cut of the same amount would have been much more effective as it would have left the money in the productive part of the economy and "stimulated " bidness. all obama did was put a bandaid on various governments. The piper still came due in the states and localities....
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Oculus Spirit [83127]
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How did it suck money away from economy by
Apr 23, 2012, 9:31 PM
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saving thousands of teachers, policemen, and firefighter jobs in the states. Be specific.
Now, you'd have a legitimate argument if you only said the cost per job was too high. But to say the stimulus hurt employment is ludicrous.
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Teacher's,Policemen, and Firefighters, as wonderful as they
Apr 23, 2012, 10:30 PM
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are, add nothing to the pocketbook.
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Oculus Spirit [83127]
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But job situation would be must worse in the short run
Apr 24, 2012, 9:30 AM
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with more state layoffs...all I'm saying. The stimulus had to help the employment situation, at least short term.
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helped perhaps short run but when the fed money
Apr 24, 2012, 12:36 PM
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ran out states still had the problems. kicked the can for a few monrths and did nothing to help the long term problems we had in the economy.
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Oculus Spirit [83127]
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True, but that has nothing to do with today's economic
Apr 24, 2012, 1:03 PM
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problems and hasn't contributed in a negative way to unemployment like you said above.
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Hard to quantify but it certainly sucked $$$ out of the
Apr 25, 2012, 10:02 AM
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productive sector. And if you compare it to Obamas promise of what stimulus would do for employment it was a colossal failure.
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Re: Stimulus didnt stimulate..Just added to the debt.
Apr 23, 2012, 9:59 PM
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A tax cut of the same amount would have been much more effective...
Your right wing info-tainment sources must have neglected to mention that the stimulus included tax cuts.
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Everybody deserves a free college education
Apr 23, 2012, 12:03 PM
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And about 1/4 of them actually need it.
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dunno..ask again on november 7.***
Apr 23, 2012, 7:48 PM
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