The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) is trying to prove that liberal arts majors are gainfully employed but they’re not doing so all that clearly.
Topic: unemployment
The Commencement Address You Will Not Hear
Obama Administration officials ran themselves ragged delivering commencement addresses but you needn’t expect Trump Administration officials to run out of energy after graduation day.
Berkeley Claims California Still Golden
Non-Californians may view the exodus from the state as a sort of reverse migration that goes against historical trends, particularly those dramatized in old western movies.
Obama Economist Can’t Spin Trump Jobs Data
Lisa D. Cook, a Michigan State economist who served on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), took sharp aim at her old boss’s successor in an appearance at the Center for American Progress (CAP)…
President Obama’s Economic Legacy
As President Obama’s second term nears its end he has begun a media tour emphasizing what he claims are the positive aspects of his policies. The complicit media, of course, have long worked to inflate…
Good News for English Majors, Sort Of
When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, they were rather pessimistic about the future of their profession, with one small but notable…
Federal Reserve Study: College Degrees for Minorities No Guarantee of Raising Income
Campus Reform with more on the study: The report released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis poses the question, “Why didn’t higher education protect Hispanic and black wealth?” in response to…
Krugman and the New York Times Spinning Obama’s Legacy
Editor’s Note: Perhaps Princeton’s most famous economist, Paul Krugman, still in denial. In the view of The New York Times and other beacons of the liberal media, President Barack Obama’s policies are a resounding success…
Wharton Professor asks, Will College Pay Off?
Many agree that by making college more accessible, it is actually flooding the labor market with college graduates to the point that not all of them can be hired.
Media Downplays Youth Unemployment
Recent college graduates contemplating their post-graduation job prospects might find that the media are as inaccurate a source of information as their university career services department is. The Washington Post reported on June 5, 2015…