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How’s Job Hunting Going for the Class of 2021? We Checked In with Some Soon-to-be Grads
Base illustration courtesy of iStock/Olga Strelnikova Student Life How’s Job Hunting Going for the Class of 2021? We Checked In with Some Soon-to-be Grads
Seniors share their strategies for finding employment
April 21, 2021 Twitter Facebook
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, it more or less eviscerated the market for entry-level jobs. Thanks to hiring freezes, furloughs, layoffs, and rescinded offers, the national employment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds ballooned to a dismal 25.7 percent last May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly a year later, prospects for 2021 graduates are on the upswing, says a National Association of Colleges and Employers March report: employers project hiring 7.2 percent more college graduates this year than last.
Nearly a quarter of CT young people have gotten a vaccine dose
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State Sen. Will Haskell, D-New Canaan, far right, poses for a selfie with, from left, Mike Cerulli, Daira Rivera, Michael Hernández, Darius Williams, and Eloisa Melendez before receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Stamford Health Vaccination Super Site in Stamford, Conn. Tuesday, April 6, 2021.Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Students across Connecticut are embracing the COVID-19 vaccine.
Individuals ages 16 through 24 became eligible to sign up for the shot at the beginning of the month, and almost a quarter or about 103,000 young adults have already gotten at least their first dose, according to state data. That’s almost double the 53,000 who had at least a first dose as of April 7.
He s got a great heart : How a North Branford teen became a Vaccine Angel
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Northford, Connecticut -Saturday- April 10, 2021: Luke Izzo, of Northford, a 16-year-old student at New Haven Academy, is a member of the Vaccine Hunters and Angels, a Facebook group that helps people get appointments for their COVID vaccines.Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media
NORTH BRANFORD Nancy Kaplan was feeling desperate that her young adult son get his COVID-19 vaccination before they go to her daughter’s graduation from an Iowa veterinary school in May.
“No one wears masks there,” said Kaplan, who lives in Danbury.
Turning to the “New York/Connecticut Vaccine Hunters and Angels” group on Facebook, Kaplan’s son was given an appointment in plenty of time for the trip. Little did she know it was a 16-year-old Boy Scout who came to their rescue.
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