at the time median income was 80k a year and it had one of the highest cost of living rates in the country.
I would have to live and hour away in the desert to find an affordable place.

i took a 55k a year job in scranton pa where the median income was only like 33k a year at the time.

 

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student loan debt surpassed credit card debt... To me, this says that people are reducing their credit card debt and going back to school.

 

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federal student loans are not the problem. it is the private student loans.

 

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Those same young people are inclined to say it isn't his fault that we are in the toilet, so they're defecting to nowhere. Expect many to either vote for him again in 2012 or stay home altogether.

Civil Engineers are in demand.

Is it my fault you young people for the most part have ignored my career advice for the last 10 years.

http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2010/12/06/best-careers-2011-civil-engineer

 

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Computer Scientists and Computer Engineers are in demand, but Americans are so dumb we have to bring in people from India and China and get them visas.

 

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I think I could do Civil Engineering fairly well; I am just afraid I'd waste the money on college as I become extremely bored/sleepy when reading text books.

 

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WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.

It is not "Americans are so dumb".
American COMPANIES like the fact that you can get these people to do the job for 20% or less than an American living in this country gets paid.
THAT'S why the Indian companies are getting their business. THAT'S what's fueling the current job crisis, NOT congress or the President(to the degree that they're being demonized over it).
It is corporate greed pure and simple. Pay less and less and less.
And let me tell you, these people are doing a half-assed job at it, and eventually American Corporations are going to wake up and see you get what you pay for. I've seen it first-hand, I'm living it.

My old company's entire IT was outsourced (development to two Indian companies, Infrastructure and support to an American company I shall not name). I was fortunate enough to get a job with that company, and am still doing the same job for the same "old" company, but working for the outsource-ee.
The rank and file for the "old" company rues the day that decision was made. They're saving money but the service is nothing what it was (for those functions shipped overseas), the work is crap. THE higher you go the less you see it, you're blinded by the savings.
But those who have to deal with it day to day on both sides are pulling their hair out.

Pure and simple, American Corporate greed is what will destroy this country.

 

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Why even include 16-18 in that range? Teenagers often don't need or even want jobs. And many college students forgo working also, or work only during the summer.

 

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Yeah, I'd more more interested in 'completed education' and seeking work category.

 

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