{"id":14250,"date":"2025-05-31T18:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T01:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14250"},"modified":"2025-05-25T18:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:10:39","slug":"college-grad-unemployment-rate-reaches-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14250","title":{"rendered":"College grad unemployment rate reaches 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unemployment rate for college grads\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/25\/business\/economy\/white-collar-layoffs.html\">has risen 30 percent<\/a>\u00a0since September 2022, compared with about 18 percent for all workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LinkedIn\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/karinkimbrough_one-of-my-big-ideas-for-2025-was-that-we-activity-7308130962675011585-7LHD?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAABTEARUB3DqvBLONb1r6EcmmOVjinNqM3Wo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Workforce Confidence Index<\/a>, a measure of job and career confidence across nearly 500,000 professionals, is hitting new lows amid general uncertainty. Members of Generation Z are even more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/linkedin-news_whos-struggling-most-with-their-employment-activity-7323713456933605377-lPGt\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAABTEARUB3DqvBLONb1r6EcmmOVjinNqM3Wo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pessimistic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/19\/opinion\/linkedin-ai-entry-level-jobs.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/19\/opinion\/linkedin-ai-entry-level-jobs.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment rate for college grads\u00a0has risen 30 percent\u00a0since September 2022, compared with about 18 percent for all workers. LinkedIn\u2019s\u00a0Workforce Confidence Index, a measure of job and career confidence across nearly 500,000 professionals, is hitting new lows amid general uncertainty. Members of Generation Z are even more\u00a0pessimistic. Link:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-job","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3HQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14251,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions\/14251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}