«We are embarking on a new programme that the President is going to launch on May Day, and it is targeted
at graduate unemployment.
Not exact matches
They grew up in a time of tremendous economic uncertainty, and many
graduated college when the
unemployment rate was
at an all - time high.
Unemployment in the South Bronx was
at 45 percent; of the 1,900 to 2,000 children enrolled
at Morris High School, only about 65
graduated each year; and, many of the children were afflicted with asthma, something Kozol associated with the neighborhood's incinerators for discarded medical supplies.
In order to ameliorate this problem of academia and industry variation and the
unemployment trend, our educational sector needs to undergo a rigorous structural reform to improve the quality of
graduates we produce
at every educational level.
The NaBCo programme which is aimed
at addressing livelihood empowerment and
graduate unemployment is expected to hire some 100,000
graduates.
He noted that he is worried over the number of
graduates sitting
at home with no jobs, hence his government's intervention to curb the menace of
graduate unemployment in the country.
Is the American Chemical Society's (ACS's) survey showing «record highs in the
unemployment rates» of newly
graduating chemists
at all degree levels also mistaken?
Unemployment is
at it's pick and I may even go ahead and say a majority of these
graduates don't believe in education as the key to success anymore.
Even
at the height of the Great Recession, the
unemployment rate for young college
graduates was still half of the
unemployment rate for young high school
graduates (7.5 % v. 16.8 %).
Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school
at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to
graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of
unemployment.
At the other end of the scale, based on figures for 2014, Greece and Spain have the highest rates of
graduate unemployment.
Afterwards Veblen moved on to Yale for a PhD in philosophy and, after seven years of
unemployment back on the family farm, did further
graduate studies
at Cornell in the social sciences.
We started by looking
at the
unemployment rate for college
graduates, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Its wage premium for college
graduates is the ninth - highest among the cities we looked
at, and the
unemployment rate for the college educated is just 3.6 percent.
College
graduates should have no problem finding work here, with the
unemployment rate for people with a bachelor's degree
at 3.5 percent, and pay for the group is 76 percent higher than for less educated folks.
With
unemployment at record highs, many college
graduates feel grateful for whatever jobs they can get.
Two other key points from the Brookings analysis: 1) for - profit schools remain the primary driver of high student loan defaults, and 2) black college
graduates default
at five times the rate of white college
graduates, due to persistent
unemployment, higher use of for - profit colleges and lower parental income and assets.
High
graduating numbers have not dampened the students» employment prospects, however, as law
graduates enjoy the third lowest
unemployment rates among recent
graduates,
at 4 %.
During the recession just a few years ago, young people were
graduating into a job market that simply wasn't there; the national
unemployment rate for workers under 25 peaked
at 19.5 % in April 2010 (compared to a peak of around 10 % for the country as a whole).
We looked specifically
at the
unemployment rate for workers under 25 years old to get a better idea
at where young
graduates should go to increase their odds of getting work as soon as possible.
As the media was filled with the latest dismal
graduate employment statistics at the beginning of the week (see our piece â $ ˜The Graduate Unemployment Sectorâ $ ™ for more details) we thought it was about time to give you something to as
graduate employment statistics
at the beginning of the week (see our piece â $ ˜The
Graduate Unemployment Sectorâ $ ™ for more details) we thought it was about time to give you something to as
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Many young
graduates around the world are doing the same, with youth
unemployment at home forcing them to seek a decent job and salary elsewhere.
As a result, Canada's changing workforce has left university and college
graduates on the sidelines of its economy with
unemployment rates as high
at 14.8 % in the last 12 months.
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unemployment
With youth
unemployment and competition for
graduate jobs
at an all - time high, it might seem like a bad time to start considering a career change.
Looking
at data from previous downturns, a large drop in
unemployment rates after six months — and the drop this year is comparatively large — usually signals the beginning of a genuine recovery in the
graduate jobs market that lasts another year, or sometimes two, and then levels out as the jobs market finds a new status quo.
For example, despite the growing need for workers with specialist digital skills, computer science
graduates have the highest
unemployment rate of any degree course
at 10 % after 6 months
graduating, 10 which is in part due to some
graduates not leaving with the technical or professional skills needed by employers.
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While we are always sensitive to potential job losses, the GGP employees who are
at greatest risk of losing their jobs in the Simon Transaction are generally all
at corporate headquarters, are highly skilled and have college and often
graduate degrees, and participate in the segment of the U.S. economy with among the lowest
unemployment rates.