The Sluggish Economy Slams Recent College Grads

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[John]

That is okay, they will still vote for Warren to save them.

[PapayaSF]

More financial regulations will bring the economy back to life!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is that grad with the burger and fries kicking up his heels or breaking an ankle?

[Swiss Servator, Lucerneriffic]

Breaking an ankle. Then he will get lifetime disability....problem solved!

[Pro Libertate]

My understanding is that lifetime disability is available now without actually having a disability.

[Jason Keisling]

both

[Paul.]

Could we say that the sluggish economy is... raping college grads?

[Dances-with-Trolls]

No, when people other than SJWs in good standing compare things to rape it trivializes rape. E-mail the idea to Sen Warren and she can say it for us.

[Response]

No, because it is consensual.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

Maybe we should poll them and see what they think.

[Dr Fallout]

But what about the Millenials? Oh wait.... this IS about them.

[Jerry on the sea]

"We don't trust them universities, but with the right people in charge..."

[Riven]

You know who else got slammed with a sluggish economy?

[OldMexican]

Circuit City?

[Doctor Whom]

Louis XVI?

[Lord Humungus]

The Okies?

[Jason Keisling]

Blockbuster?

[Swiss Servator, Lucerneriffic]

The Spanish Habsburgs?

[Dances-with-Trolls]

This poor guy?

[This Machine Kills 40s]

Haile Selassie?

[Paul.]

George Bush?

[Sevo]

Solyndra!

[Response]

Porn stars?

[Pro Libertate]

Wrong, sir, wrong! College grads will have excellent opportunities as fast-food crew. Wait, what do people expect to get for $15/hour?

[HazelMeade]

The move towards freelancing is a fascinating shift that deserves to be better studied.
I don't think it's all a matter of unemployed people finding work where they can, I think there's actually a restructuring of the workforce happening as the result of the spread of internet-based businesses, with new paradigms for employment relationships popping up.

There are hackerspaces and co-working arrangements developing to house these people, with people working on different projects fluidly interacting and sharing expertise, as if they shared an office, but they are actually all freelanders.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking)

Basically, there are substantial numbers of people working in the technology sector, without having any formal employment arrangement, and it seems to be sufficiently sustainable that they can support a cottage industry of shared office spaces.

[Walter Peck]

"The move towards freelancing is a fascinating shift that deserves to be better studied."

It will be easier for the government to crush it if we study it, though.

[XM]

Millennials freelancing isn't all that different from illegals washing dishes at a Chinese restaurants. They're both low on options and are forced to adapt to market changes.

They ain't "taking charge" of anything. Lots of companies can't pay healthcare or benefits, so they'll hire independent contractors. The cool millennials will need help from their parents paying their taxes (you can't NOT pay tax as a freelancer) come April.

[Marshall Gill]

I would imagine that "degrees" in puppeteering and Ancient Lesbian basket weaving probably also have some contribution to the unemployment of graduates.

[OldMexican]

< blockquoteThe Sluggish Economy Slams Recent College Grads

Bullshit. If only 51.9% of all jobs held by college graduates require a college degree, then the problem is not a sluggish economy but an oversupply of college-graduated workers. Even with a sluggish economy, that number of overqualified workers shouldn't be that high. That to me is a clear indication of a higher-education bubble.

[SusanM]

https://celebrity. yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/ daniele-watts-goes-on-the-offensive- after-being-detained-by- lapd-for-heavy-pda-170420117.html

More info on the Danielle Watts incident (hope this wasn't already covered).

[Dances-with-Trolls]

1) SF'd the link

2) Is that about how she maybe was doing the nasty with her husband in the car?

[PapayaSF]

Actual link. Yes, the cops got a call that they were having sex in the car with the door open. It wasn't just "kissing."

[PapayaSF]

She dresses like a hooker, acts like a hooker, gives the cop a hard time, and then complains about it. Yawn.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Hookers wear white fashion t-shirts and ugly plaid shorts that hang just above the knee?

[GILMORE]

She isn't 'dressed like a hooker' and didn't 'act like a hooker'.

Listen to the audio. And may god have mercy on your soul.

[GILMORE]

Oh, i wasn't referencing the linked interview there...

...i was saying, listen to the actual audio of her arrest.

I don't want to hear what her ex post facto claims are.

[PapayaSF]

I didn't say she looked like a well-dressed hooker.

[The Other Kevin]

I heard Stephen Moore (from Heritage/formerly WSJ) this morning stating that the voting blocks who went for Obama the most (black, Hispanic, women, the young) are the ones getting screwed the most economically: lower employment, lower pay, less full-time work. But as John said, they'd still double down and vote for Warren.

[antisocial-ist]

The job market isn't that important when someone else will pay for you to stay home.

[The Last American Hero]

And stay on Dad's health insurance plan.

Seriously, there was a time when benefits were a motivator to get kids off the couch and into the workforce.

[gaijin]

I like that 55% in the poll say they would want to own their own business. I'm guessing they just want someone else to build it for them first.

[GILMORE]

everyone knows that the failure of Obamas presidency is due to the corporations and the republicans and the kochs and rightwingers and the constitution and the profit and the racists and the processed food industry

[Root Boy]

Talk about inversions. All the left wing policies over the last few years just fucked the shit out of the economy but cronies on Wall St are living high on the hog of the Fed policies and spending policies from Obama.

What's the matter with Detroit?

[antisocial-ist]

What's the matter with Detroit?

As I understand it, they didn't build a wall to keep all of those racist rich people in.

[Root Boy]

White flight was also black flight. The Jeffersons were moving on up along with the Smiths. Just the loosers and government employees left behind to vote for Conyers, Kilpatrick and Obama.

[Ted S.]

Could this article have been written in under 1,000 words?

[GILMORE]

Did someone say, "Sluggish Economy?"

try the veal

[Stickler Meeseeks]

Love the graphics!

[Sevo]

The number of grads in "non-degree jobs" needs clarification.
If your degree is in, oh, GLBT-studies, most any employer is going to see you as "non-degreed".

[antisocial-ist]

I would see them as "non-employable".

[NYC Liberal]

"Freelancing" actual means TEMP.

Nice try though.

[KRoyall]

Kinda blows the whole "open borders" thing out of the water doesn't it? Or should we let foreign workers in despite the fact American kids are sitting on mountains of school loan debt and can't find work in their field?

[jmomls]

*Or should we let foreign workers in despite the fact American kids are sitting on mountains of school loan debt and can't find work in their field?*

Bring back colonialism. Give some of these millenials and gangbangers the materiel and the power to seize vast swaths of the third world as their own fiefdoms. They can then "run their own business(es)".

[Deckard]

Slightly OT:

There is this guy I have been thinking about removing from my Facebook friends list for some time. He posts constantly all kinds of prig bullshit, and I struggle not to make fun of him. Any time we debate anything he just uses a bunch of talking points and ad homonym.

Anyway, he posted about how he was writing a paper about the budget, and finished with some line in praise of Keynes, and I could not help but say something.

Guy
Writing a paper on how terrible a balanced budget amendment would do to the US economy. "I'd rather be in a foxhole with Keynes than Friedman. Keynes would call in artillery. Friedman would simply give up while lamenting the fact that there are indeed, people trying to kill him."

Me
I think Keynes would call artillery on himself in an effort to "do something"

Guy
Friedman is dead and so are his ideas in serious policy discussions. But I'm sure you can engage Friedman economists at a Heritage Foundation circle jerk. When the chips are down, policymakers will act with the facts they have, not to fulfill a classical ideology.