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10. The unemployment rate of recent college grads is well above the overall average - a historical anomaly

Reply to brush (Reply #5)

Sat May 31, 2025, 12:25 PM

May 31

The labor market is worse than it appears, Yahoo Finance's Chart of the Week, 5/31/25
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-labor-market-is-worse-than-it-appears-100130608.html

The three-month moving average of the unemployment rate for recent graduates aged 22 to 27 currently sits at roughly 5.3%, well above the national average of 4.2%, per Oxford Economics. As our Chart of the Week shows, this is a historic anomaly.

Zoomers ... And talk about a bad job market and housing prices, they've got that worse than millennials.

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Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. [View all] littlemissmartypants May 31 OP

I keep hearing the young don't have as much job loyalty Skittles May 31 #1

The Exploited Generation bucolic_frolic May 31 #2

Written in 2017 MichMan May 31 #3

Yeah - this is old. Have things changed? Not for KPN May 31 #6

For me, the regular print version is much easier to read ... progree May 31 #4

"The Ice caps the baby boomers melted" Is this another generation wars thread? brush May 31 #5

Another generation war thread? To me, its more about KPN May 31 #7

Give an example of a better system. brush May 31 #8

The unemployment rate of recent college grads is well above the overall average - a historical anomaly progree May 31 #10

So true, the Zoomers have it bad, way worst than Millennials. brush May 31 #11

Fascinating and well presented article genxlib May 31 #9

Reaganism took root and festered for their whole lives IbogaProject May 31 #12