Anti Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 770-773

College graduates and advanced degree holders, once they are unemployed, are as vulnerable as high school dropouts to long-term joblessness, a new study has found.
Unemployed College Graduates As Vulnerable As High School Dropouts ToLong-Term Unemployment: Report

As one of the 95.9% of bachelors degree or higher that are employed...it doesn't mean I'm making a living wage (I work 2 jobs, one full time, the other 20* hours a week). But even more than the money...I'm not coming near to what I *could* do, and I see that all around me. People counted as employed but not working anything like their potential, nor anything like they hoped when they invested in their education.
nlwincaro
North Carolina
NYT
comment on T. Friedman's
Average Is Over
Published: January 24, 2012

Unemployment in the eurozone hit a record high at the end of last year, the Eurostat agency has said.
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Unemployment is at the highest rate since the euro was launched in 1999.
Eurozone unemployment hits new record
BBC31 January 2012

Suicides among active-duty soldiers hit another record high in 2011… The Army also reported a sharp increase, nearly 30 percent, in violent sex crimes last year by active-duty troops. More than half of the victims were active-duty female soldiers ages 18 to 21.
New York Times