The New York Times – Patricia Cohen
“For seniors graduating from the University of Michigan this month, employers have been lining up since the fall to offer interviews and boast of their companies’ benefits…The outlook for many high school graduates is more challenging…the unemployment rate is disturbingly high: 17.8 percent…Younger workers have always had a tougher time finding a job than their older, more experienced counterparts. Even so, the economic recovery has progressed more slowly for young high school graduates than for those coming out of college…a growing chorus of economists, employers and educators argue more effort needs to be put into improving job prospects for people without college degrees…vocational schools should no longer be thought of as dead ends, since they can serve as steppingstones to associate degrees at community colleges or to enrollment at four year institutions.”(more)