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The 13 Most Worthless Majors

Matt Cantor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:57:22 CDT

Hey, college students: If your life plans include getting an actual job, you may want to avoid the stars of the Daily Beast 's "most useless" majors list. Majors are ranked in terms of employment, taking into account unemployment rates among recent and experienced grads, earnings, and likely job growth...

Young Adults Put Life on Hold Over Economy

John Johnson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:57:03 CST

The economy is doing a number on those aged 18 to 34, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center : Half say they have taken a job they didn't want. More than a third have gone back to school because of the job market. Nearly a quarter have...

Obama's Jobs Bill Goes to Congress Tonight

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:08:55 CDT

"Pass this bill," President Obama said more than two dozen times during his two speeches last week touting his jobs bill —and he’ll say it again tonight when he officially sends the American Jobs Act to Congress. “He will call on Congress to pass the bill, which contains the kinds...

Meet 'Generation Limbo'

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:25:33 CDT

Stephanie Kelly graduated in 2009 with a degree in advertising; instead she works as a part-time secretary and writes freelance for an online “Secret Santa Organizer.” Amy Klein has a degree in English lit from Harvard, but the 2007 grad has been touring the country in a minivan as part...

Law School Duped Us About Job Prospects: Alumni Suit

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:51:05 CDT

Apparently suing your law school is a new trend: Another lawsuit has been filed, this time by a group of graduates unhappy with their alma mater. New York Law School dupes students into enrolling by claiming that "the overwhelming majority of its students—90% to 95%— secure employment within nine...

Unemployment Falls to 9%

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:17:54 CST

The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9%, the lowest level in nearly two years. But the economy added only 36,000 new jobs, the fewest in four months. The unemployment rate has fallen by eight-tenths of a percentage point in the past two months; that's the steepest two-month...

Recruiters: Columbia, MIT Are So 'Second-Tier'

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:19:39 CST

If you’re determined to get a great job, you might want to quit your course of study at Cornell or Dartmouth and transfer to one of the "top 5" schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Wharton. A new study shows that recruiters for the best law firms, investment banks, and...

Hordes of Chinese Grads Battle for Scant Jobs

Matt Cantor — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:17:19 CST

The number of Chinese college graduates has soared in the past decade—but there aren’t enough white-collar jobs to sustain the highly-educated young population, reports the New York Times . Traveling en masse to big cities, working six-day weeks, and living packed into cramped quarters, young graduates have earned themselves the...

Law Student Asks School to Refund Tuition

John Johnson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:21:44 CDT

A law student at Boston College has taken a look at the job market (and student loans) that await him—and would like a full tuition refund, please. In an open letter to the dean that ran in the EagleiOnline school paper, the anonymous third-year student offers to drop out...