{"id":5876,"date":"2012-06-09T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T17:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2012-06-09T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T17:26:43","slug":"jobs-unemployment-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5876","title":{"rendered":"Jobs, Unemployment, and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4979\" title=\"userpic=generated\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicgenerated.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/>If you&#8217;ve been following the news at all of late, you would think there are no open jobs, and that getting a post-high school education isn&#8217;t worth the money it costs. But two articles expose that as wrong. The first article notes that there are <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jun\/08\/business\/la-fi-skill-shortage-20120608\" target=\"_blank\">lots of jobs for workers with the right skills<\/a>; in fact, there are significant shortages. This includes jobs for people with the <em>right<\/em> college degrees (computer science being one of them), or jobs for people with appropriate technical skills. A simple high school diploma simply isn&#8217;t enough. This is echoed in another article, which talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-tough-job-market-for-high-school-graduates-20120608,0,2643932.story\" target=\"_blank\">the tough job market for people with <em>only<\/em> high school diplomas<\/a>. Quoting from that article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent <a id=\"OREDU0000234\" title=\"Rutgers University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/rutgers-university-OREDU0000234.topic\">Rutgers University<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heldrich.rutgers.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/Left_Out_Forgotten_Work_Trends_June_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> of young people who graduated from 2006 to 2011 finds that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly a third are unemployed<\/li>\n<li>Only 27% have full-time jobs, and another 15% are employed part-time but looking for full-time work<\/li>\n<li>Most of those working full-time earn barely enough to keep them out of poverty; their current median wage is $9.25 an hour<\/li>\n<li>Fewer than 10% said their high-school education prepared them \u201cextremely well\u201d for their first job<\/li>\n<li>Most remain financially dependent on their parents or relatives for housing or other needs<\/li>\n<li>More than half said their generation will have less financial success than the previous generation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t get a good education, what jobs are open? Well, you could do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-crowd-labor-20120609,0,4389661.story\" target=\"_blank\">crowd-sourced short-term labor through Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk<\/a>. These are &#8220;micro-gigs&#8221;, such as taking little surveys, transcribing insurance claims, writing product description, subtitling porn movies, assessing search engines. This is a growing field, but it doesn&#8217;t pay much. Crowd labor revenues were up 75% in 2011 to $375 million. And the number of crowd workers is growing even faster, climbing more than 100% last year, with about 40% of the 6-million-member workforce living in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>Live in the UK<\/em> (Tom Paxton): Come Away With Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the news at all of late, you would think there are no open jobs, and that getting a post-high school education isn&#8217;t worth the money it costs. 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