Then of course there is the labor day college football tradition of Miami vs FSU, where all the parties involved hope it won't be a battle of the mediocre, again.
In the past we have argued that colleges have produced a surplus of college graduates (at least in terms of the labor market demand for workers with a college education).
Greg Saltzman, a professor at Albion College and a labor researcher at the University of Michigan, says the UAW had to make a painful choice - accept this VEBA or face the possibility that General Motors might declare bankruptcy.
During my Labor Day Weekend visit to College Town USA, I stayed at the tony, centrally located, and pink-themed Langham Hotel, a former Federal Reserve Bank converted into a Renaissance Revival masterpiece that my late GOP mother would have adored.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment for college graduates aged 24 and younger with four-year degrees was at 8.2% in December, more than twice the rate for older graduates and several points higher than the 5.7% rate before the recession.
The Aspen Prize recognizes community college excellence in the areas of student learning, degree completion, labor market success in securing good jobs after college, and minority and low-income student success.
In other words, all the cold, corporatized exploitation and neatly packaged entertainment of the NFL but with college kids providing the cheap labor and the buying power instead of fully-formed adults.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics data consistently shows that young people with college degrees fare better than those who did not earn diplomas.
National economic and labor force data consistently affirms that those with a college education earn more than those without it, and that the more higher education attained, means even more lifetime earnings.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate is especially high among college students and recent graduates.
Changing internships from the exposure-audition model to a minimum-wage model may serve labor activists, but it won't serve ambitious college students or the companies seeking them.
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Gabriel always worked full-time while attending college and now is reaping the benefits of his labor and is just one course away from completing his AAS in Web Graphic Design with a bright future ahead.
In February, almost 1.9 million college graduates were unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
After all, tuition and fees have increased 184% in 20 years after accounting for inflation, but wages for college grads have risen just 9%, according to Labor Department data.
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The poll's finding that five of the six professions show a net expectation that they'll be hiring fits in with an important fact that data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown for the last decade, that unemployment among workers with college degrees is only half the overall unemployment rate.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 68.3% of 2011 high school graduates headed off to college last fall.
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The labor market is demanding a higher level of skills, pressing more students to continue into college and junior college (tandai) courses.
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for high school grads age 20 to 24 with no college under their belts was 17.9% in 2012, compared to 7.7% for those with college degrees.
In that case, White and the four other named plaintiffs alleged that a number of labor practices in the NFL violated antitrust law: the right of first refusal, the college draft system and the standard NFL contract, to name a few.
Analysts at PayScale compared its massive compensation database with 120 college majors and job growth projections through 2020 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to determine the 15 most valuable majors in the current marketplace.
In his view, a cluster of cultural prejudices have steered many potential tradesmen into college, and then toward stultifying office jobs, which provide less satisfaction and less security than skilled manual labor, and sometimes less money.
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