The Young and the Wageless: Too Disaffected to Vote?

Bloomberg Businessweek reports:

One unexpected beneficiary of so many young people looking for work: retailers, who in better times have trouble finding qualified help but are now swamped with applicants with degrees. The portion of working 20- to 24-year-old college graduates in jobs that don’t require a higher education surged from 34.2 percent in 2007 to 39.1 percent in 2010, and among 25- to 29-year-old graduates it rose from 26.1 percent to 29.9 percent, according to an analysis by Paul Harrington and Neeta Fogg, researchers at Drexel University’s Center for Labor Markets and Policy.

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