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Working for The Man: Federal Employment Spike Exacerbates Dependency on the State

By Ashton Ellis
Tuesday, December 15 2009

If you’re an experienced worker looking for employment during the recession and in need of some schadenfreude, feast your eyes on this recent headline: "Job market worsens for recent college graduates." The L.A. Times article profiles a recent UCLA graduate’s failure to land a job after nearly a year of applying to 600 positions across several states. True, the student majored in political science. But theoretical training in finance or engineering isn’t giving his competition much of a leg up either. Instead, the problems facing young, recently…

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