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New Iffy, that "with enough financial security"--Middle or any unRich class, next:
When your Televangelist-besotted boss Can (now) Say, "no birth control, abortions, a-religious Words from you" or
You're FIRED!

For all that Education + the Debt-to-Prove It: just that one Menace-launched missive /missile seems to have torpedoed the 'Middle'
out of middle-class.None is safe-from the Banksters--reinforced by the unTeachables' undermining of all 'protections'--especially the softly,
unspecified 'Human Rights' Basics!--we-Thought, before.

(Hope I'm Wrong)--just maybe the fallout of COVID CAN ..reinfuse growth of some now, pretty tiny cojones.
New Why do you think they're attacking education?
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Drew
New They have always attacked education.
But if you think the college educated protesters are out there because "they can afford to be" then you're missing something. Even taking the unemployed and still in mom and dad's basement out of the equation, 43% of recent college graduates are underemployed. We're learning that has far reaching consequences.
We all have heard stories of newly minted college graduates working as baristas or selling clothes at Gap. It’s what economists call underemployment: people doing jobs for which they are overqualified. Generally, however, we dismiss the phenomenon as a relic of the recession or a short-term problem affecting a small number of graduates who will find their footing soon.

But underemployment may be far more widespread than we have imagined — affecting up to 43 percent of recent graduates, according to a report. This unprecedented analysis of 4 million unique résumés examines the scope and impact of underemployment on graduates in the years that follow college. It turns out that underemployment can mark the first steps to a permanent professional detour — more than a speed bump on the journey to a prosperous career.

The results are troubling, if instructive: With the exception of a few disciplines, such as computer science, engineering and communications, grads who start off underemployed have a higher likelihood of remaining underemployed five and 10 years out. For women, the odds are even worse.

Underemployment, we’re learning, is not a short-term challenge. It is a long-term problem with serious financial implications. So how can recent graduates avoid the underemployment trap? Three things matter most: first job, college major and gender.

The data are clear: If graduates start off underemployed, there is incredible inertia that prevents them from getting out of that rut. The 43 percent of workers who were underemployed in their first job were five times as likely to be underemployed five years later as those who were not underemployed in their first job.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/06/01/first-jobs-matter-avoiding-the-underemployment-trap/

Note: that article was written (and the study it references was done) well before the Covid crisis, so the impact of the pandemic was not even considered. The situation for these highly in debt, underemployed college graduates, one can imagine, has hardly improved with the outbreak of the pandemic.

It's a damned shame higher education has become little more than vocational training in this country, but that such is the case is almost beyond question. Somewhere along the line we decided "everyone is entitled to a college education" and that fundamentally changed the entire enterprise. Because STEM majors are "hard," we produced more liberal arts and soft science (sociology, psychology, etc.) majors than a functioning society could absorb. This is not to say those sorts of majors are without merit. Indeed, I'd argue the exact opposite. But, imo, there is no stronger condemnation of what has happened to higher education in this country than the fact that the most popular major at Indiana University is Business. This is bad because it diminishes the import of a college education and depresses the wages of all college graduates. I rebelled against the idea of "getting a degree in something that will lead to a job" for most of my life. But today, with everyone and their pet dog "earning" a college degree, I can no longer hold on to the quaint idea that a college education is purely about expanding your mind and helping you better understand the world and your place in it. As my quote indicates, your major now and possibly forever henceforth does matter.
bcnu,
Mikem

It's mourning in America again.
New Mke nails it, but.. but.. They ARE 'for 'education' !! (spelled: 'Indoctrination', in jelloware)
Evil-Wired WORDS indeed KILL
..just maybe All Living creatures--if these Defectives are not extirpated by all means Imaginable.

Saint Orwell (cf. post on 1949 Launch, elsewhere) SAID THIS 71 YEARS AGO ... now we see
how impervious-ARE these zombies to ... even THEIR OWN 'Existential--matters' writ large.
Be. Very. Afraid.--that we may-Not? have any next 'election' Happen.

[Most-all here Are 'fraid-enough] of course: but the vox populi have only one 'conditional-Member' ..in these parts.
!f enough End Times Rupturing-^Out^ folks act upon just this Monkey-brain Instinctive-level of ƒeare then,
The Planet surely Dies [/Carrion] should the Madness continue --> insanely-Devastating any chance for
'World' (authentic) Leadership' at its Ultimate critical-hour.



Climate + COVID + gutted Amazon rain-forest etc. Mindlessness spells _____ 'flat-line' on the Monitor.
Aux Barricades! mon ƒreres... it may be the ONLY verifiably-sane riposte to Rat-fuckers of all stripes. Next.
(Phlogiston recipe + Others shall thence be Broadcast to all, 24/7). [as long as the LIghts are still working]
Chemistry Trumps all 'personal charisma'. per F=MA rulez. A Bogus Election Means Certain-Insurrection.

OR: we Are collectvely already clinically-DEAD zombies.
     PBS/npr does, 'How we got here--re 'shareholder capitalism, Part 1 ..succinct, crunchy - (Ashton) - (6)
         There might be some hope for the future. - (mmoffitt) - (5)
             Just another way of saying "the middle class" - (drook) - (4)
                 Iffy, that "with enough financial security"--Middle or any unRich class, next: - (Ashton) - (3)
                     Why do you think they're attacking education? -NT - (drook) - (2)
                         They have always attacked education. - (mmoffitt)
                         Mke nails it, but.. but.. They ARE 'for 'education' !! (spelled: 'Indoctrination', in jelloware) - (Ashton)

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