More and more college graduates cannot find a job in the field marked on their degree. But student loans won’t wait, so many resort to working in the service industry at places like Walmart and Starbucks just to stay financially afloat. How long will this generation of college-education blue collar workers wait for the jobs they want? Nona Willis Aronowitz is associate editor at GOOD Magazine. Emily Sanders has worked as a waitress on and off since she was a teenager, and is the former coordinator for Restaurant Opportunities Centers New York.
Dan Gross, Economics editor and columnist at Yahoo Finance, and Charlie Herman, Economic Editor for our co-producer WNYC, discuss the new jobs report released by the Labor Department this morning.
The story you just read is available to read for free because thousands of listeners and readers like you generously support our nonprofit newsroom. Every day, the reporters and producers at The World are hard at work bringing you human-centered news from across the globe. But we can’t do it without you: We need your support to ensure we can continue this work for another year.
When you make a gift of $10 or more a month, we’ll invite you to a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of our newsroom to thank you for being with The World.