The Curse of the Class of 2009
May 16, 2009
2 Million Minutes Blog – Bob Compton
“There was a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on May 9th about the difficulties graduates of the Class of 2009 are having not only securing a job in their career of choice, but they are finding that wages are well below their expectations. While the Journal reporter attributes this to the Great Recession we are now in, I see much broader forces at work…”(more)
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