Nurses not immune to sick economy

Here's the big story on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times, Sunday:

After graduating at the top of her nursing school class at Elmhurst College in May, Talia Simon figured she wouldn't have any trouble finding a job -- certainly not during a years-long, nationwide nursing shortage.

But the Oak Park woman says she hasn't been able to find work at any of the Chicago area medical centers she has applied to. And she has been hearing the same thing from many of her former classmates.

"In last year's class, most of the people had jobs lined up before they graduated," says Simon. "This year, it's five or six people out of a class of 52. It's really a shock to us that it's such a challenge to get in on the ground floor."

Yet Barack Obama and others think the taxpayers should encourage more people to go to college and rack up big debts!