Not exact matches
We're left with a two -
tier society: those who managed to raise a deposit, secure a mortgage, buy a house and enjoy
low interest rates, and those without a brick to their name, unable to save because of the cost of living within a reasonable distance of their
job.
Nowhere has that been more acute than the Southern
Tier, where private - sector
job growth is among the
lowest in the state, and according to five - year figures provided by the state's Budget Division, almost one - seventh the rate of the Big Apple.
The result is a two -
tiered job market that confines many women of color to the
lower tier making inadequate wages.
So I favor continuing to train sub-BA students in these manners (or even the
lower tiers of BA students), while still giving them a broad enough range of skills that they can hopefully retrain if their
jobs become obsolete in the future.
As it happens, a handful of the state's high schools seem to do a better
job at sending
low - income kids to top -
tier colleges, a list of 169 compiled by U.S. News & World Report.
Only 4 percent of graduates of
lower -
tiered schools work in law firms, and many of these graduates work in small, solo practices or in state government
jobs.
There is potentially a window for a new,
Tier 3 category, which would cover
lower skilled
jobs, such as construction workers, plant operatives, caring and leisure services.
And to make matters worse,
lower -
tiered students won't have a shot at big law
jobs either.
The 2011 data showed that top - ranked schools sent graduates into long - term legal
jobs in high numbers, but 87
lower -
tier schools had placement rates of 50 % or less.
Never mind that Loyola 2L, the pseudonymous, muckraking law student who comments on the poor
job prospects for graduates of
lower -
tiered law schools at blogs like WSJ Law Blog and Above the Law may never beat out his peers from elite schools for a high - paying associate position.