Future Employment Opportunities In The United States

With the economic recession in today’s world, it is even more difficult for the young people to secure a good job and pay their debt off. The high unemployment rate among Generation Y has caused many young people to lose their mind that they are willing to do anything for money in order to release their debt burden. We would not want our generation to be labelled as the worst, indebted generation that has ever existed in this world. Having experienced and grown up in a post-war situation, we deserve something better than this. In addition, according to the author Eleni Towns in her article How 9/11 Shaped the Millennial Generation, she mentioned that “it is clear that Millennials will one day govern the country, but our impact on America occurs long before we take the reins of leadership”. We surely do not want a Millennial who is full of debt to be our president in the near future. Therefore, that is the reason why the Millennials have to be responsible in finding the solutions to this

The Millennial Generation is earning 20 percent less than the Generation X and the Baby Boomers. Psychotherapist at NYU (according to the university’s website), Brooke Donatone argues in her article, “Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up” that millennials experience “extended adolescence that delays adulthood” (Donatone 1). The author believes that the reasons for that happening are parents by their helicopter parenting and the economy because there are less high paying jobs that allow millennials to be financially independent. Throughout the article, Donatone explains that there is evidence on how it is not millennials’ fault that they are experiencing delayed adulthood. Therefore, it is safe to assume that her intended audience are the parents

The things that the author of " Young Americans get the Shaft" states that the young people under 35 should be worried about is the fact that we may not be able to find a job in their desired field after graduation. He also sates that the cost of college will places students in debt seeing that the cost of higher education has increased from 12 percent of the average family income to 23 percent. A final note made by the author that should worry those under the age of 35 is that the current state of the economy has taken away our generational right to make large economic advancements. Looking at the article and my current status as a college student the rise of the price of higher education is something that worries me more than I ever thought

This inability for people without a college degree to get ahead means they will have to work more just to stay even as shown in “Why Millennials are Behind”, spending less time with their families or doing other things they like.

Many students are leaving college with uncertainties about their career and wondering if their chances of becoming successful are being taking away from them by politicians and rising debt. Concerns for the future is what’s making democrat candidate Bernie Sanders so popular amongst many millennials voters, because he cares about how helping students gain the life they want and need after college. By raising awareness on lowering students’ debt, and doing things the untraditional way, by holding big business accountable for their actions, millennials see Bernie Sanders as a way to stand up for their future. Future students and students that are entering the work force are worried about their mobility and wondering if higher education is the way to gaining a good job or career. The issues that are

I believe it is harder for youth in America to find work because of the thirty to fourty years olds are filling the less meaningful jobs like fast food or gerocery stores as a permanent job. This is no allowing the younger generation to work these jobs while in hogh school or even college. also believe that a large percentage of todays youth lack a strong work ethic and and want something for free. “Millennials are the worst generation. They’re lazy, unmotivated, disconnected and they want a trophy for every little thing they do.” Labor Force Participation Rate is defiend as “the percentage of the population that is either employed or unemployed that is, either working or actively seeking work. People with jobs are employed or People who are jobless, looking for a job, and available for work are unemployed. The labor force is made up of the employed and the unemployed. People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.”

Today American citizens undeniably face some of the nation’s greatest challenges. No matter the issue, there will be consequences as a result. A great issue as voted by most Americans is believed to be the high percentage rate of unemployment. Unemployment is a distressingly bad aspect, and unfortunately it is a daily normality and struggle for most individuals. There are a plethora of reasons why unemployment is intensively high; frictional, structural and voluntary unemployment for example, serve as major purposes to the leading cause of high unemployment. Frictional unemployment occurs from the amount of time spent in finding new employment in the free market. For example, a recent university graduate may not necessarily expect to find a job of their expertise and skills right away therefore the job hunt continues. This also occurs whereas people choose to be unemployed rather than accepting the first job that comes around or are in between jobs because they have become inessential or simply looking for a better, beneficial career. Structural unemployment occurs due to inconsistent labor skills such as occupational immobility where learning a new skill required for a certain occupation is complicated. For example an unemployed mechanic will struggle to find an occupation in the medical industry because of the difference in occupational knowledge. Geographical immobility

The job market is like a totem pole. At the top of our totem pole we have the manufacturing jobs, if we outsource those jobs, workers must move down to the next totem and work in the service industry jobs. With those jobs taken away, it leaves teenagers without jobs and leaves them off the totem pole. “Even having a good educational background has not helped as more than half of recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed,” says John Olen, in his article for

The pay gap was remarkably smaller in previous generations. Also College-educated millennials also are more likely to be employed full time than their less-educated counterparts (89% vs. 82%) and significantly less likely to be unemployed (3.8% vs. 12.2%). For someone who does who can’t even have a high school diploma yet, these statistics aren’t exactly comforting. And with careers requiring higher education more and more finishing high school isn’t something to slack on. Finishing high school and going to college isn’t debatable subject for its more of essential requisite for me to as successful as I wish to be in the future. Not acquiring a diploma make me feel a step behind, like everyone else sprinted off to collect a million dollars while my feet were glued to cinderblocks. Though i'm still relatively young in age, I can’t shake the burdening

Along these lines, millennials are progressively delaying investments in buying cars, not buying houses, and avoiding starting a family, which disables our customer-driven economy. However, the most annoying part is that, they are avoiding professional and graduate school programs, for example, medical and law school, because of the a huge number of dollars in debt they are troubled with at the end. And if we don't act to make higher education more affordable, the interest for profoundly skilled jobs will be neglected, and America will lose ground in the competitive worldwide market.

Jeff Rausch finds the statistic alarming- $1.2 trillion is owed by those of college age- young adults working for a better future (Dynarski par.1). With his background in business with a degree from Alfred University, he

Sure the percentage has gone down from the Great Recession back in 2007 but tons of American are still looking for jobs today. According to CNN “About 2.1 million Americans have been unable to get a job for over half a year. The government calls these people the "long-term unemployed." Even though 2.1 million seem a lot better than 6.8 million which were the amount of people that were unemployed during the Great Recession, 2.1 million is still double the number of long-term unemployed than in normal times. In addition, countless of teens that are over the age of 16 are working or actively seeking for work and only 62.7% of adult Americans are working. The so-called Labor Force Participation rate hasn't been this low since the late 1970s. The negative things about having young teenagers work are that most teenagers don't want to go to college and just want to work right away. Not going to college means that you are missing out on many opportunities and the experience that will help those young teenagers to become more successful in

Dwyer, et. al., argue that the generational shift has directly impacted younger generations because the transition to adulthood has become harder and in order for younger generations to be independent, they must “[make] consequential choices within the opportunities and constraints of their social context” (Dwyer, et. al., 729). Essentially, younger generations do not have the same financial means that older generations have, therefore, they must take on some form of debt in order to advance further and to better their standing in society. For example, student loans help people attain higher education which is a long-term investment: “a college education is an investment in human capital that is crucial to improving one’s life chances” (Dwyer, et. al., 729). College education is worth the positive debt because it opens a person up to more opportunities like employment or professional degrees, such as law and medical degrees.

The Millennial generation is facing real challenges that many people do not completely understand, these are so-called “Millennial Problems”. One of the main problems that millennials deal with is their education because this generation is the most educated one in history. The problem comes when they try to find a proper job. Nowadays, generation Y is so well-prepared that it is getting more difficult to find a job which equates to their cultural level because everyone is competing for the same jobs. Instead, millennials resign themselves and get any part-time jobs which, most of the time, has nothing to do with their studies. Due to this difficulty in finding a job, it appears another problem: an important percentage of the unemployed workers are millennials. There is a controversial debate in which some, like McDonald (2008), “claim that Generation Y tend to have unrealistic expectations about work”, while some others think that Generation Y are less motivated and that work is not as central in their lives as it was for other generations. One possible solution for this problem, that the government should be addressed, could be offering a wide range of jobs which should be equal to their studies and knowledge.

Gibbs states “Young Americans are now more educated… and [yet] less likely to have a job than previous generations.” I agree that Millennials are certainly more educated then previous generations but as a result not having the right education makes it difficult to find a job. My uncle, who is currently 82, was able to quite school in eighth grade in order to find a job to help his father. When he was ready for a career he didn’t need to have a GED or high school diploma to become a pipefitter, he simply interviewed and then learned on the job. Now not only is it required have some sort of official training in order to obtain a career, but the job market is slightly smaller because machines are making doing