The last 12 months have been pure hell for the U.S. economy. According to Oxxford Information Technology, approximately 4 million U.S. businesses permanently closed their doors in 2020. We have never seen that many businesses wiped out in such a.
The last 12 months have been pure hell for the U.S. economy. According to Oxxford Information Technology, approximately 4 million U.S. businesses permanently closed their doors in 2020. We have never seen that many businesses wiped out in such a short period of time in the entire history of our country. Meanwhile, we have seen a tsunami of unemployment that has been absolutely unprecedented. More than 70 million new claims for unemployment benefits have been filed during the pandemic, and the number of new claims each week continues to hover at a level that is about three times as high as we witnessed before the pandemic. Currently, the Economic Policy Institute is telling us that “25 million American workers are either unemployed, underemployed or have pulled out of the workforce entirely”.
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College senior Bao Ha has applied to more than 100 jobs. So far, he s had no luck.
The job market is starting to roar back, but for anxious college seniors like Bao Ha, it s a different reality altogether. I ve probably applied to like 130 or 40 jobs or something, Ha says. I have not gotten even an email back, or an interview.
Ha is graduating soon from Macalaster College in Minnesota, and between his anthropology thesis and trying to check items off his senior year bucket list, he s spent hours crafting cover letters and scouring job postings.
And now, self-doubt has started to trickle in.
2 hours ago by Sam Gringlas (NPR)
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College senior Bao Ha has applied to more than 100 jobs. So far, he s had no luck.
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The job market is starting to roar back, but for anxious college seniors like Bao Ha, it’s a different reality altogether.
“I’ve probably applied to like 130 or 40 jobs or something,” Ha says. “I have not gotten even an email back, or an interview.”