High Cost Diplomas Lead to Low Wage Jobs

The Takeaway

More and more college graduates cannot find a job in the field marked on their degree. But student loans won’t wait, so many resort to working in the service industry at places like Walmart and Starbucks just to stay financially afloat. How long will this generation of college-education blue collar workers wait for the jobs they want? Nona Willis Aronowitz is associate editor at GOOD Magazine. Emily Sanders has worked as a waitress on and off since she was a teenager, and is the former coordinator for Restaurant Opportunities Centers New York.
Dan Gross, Economics editor and columnist at Yahoo Finance, and Charlie Herman, Economic Editor for our co-producer WNYC, discuss the new jobs report released by the Labor Department this morning.  

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