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“Working on the Double”

Filed under Economic Trends, Employment Outlook
Posted by Libraries, December 05, 2005
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Loretta Chao. Wall Street Journal, 11/1/2005, Vol. 246, Issue 93, p. B1.

More college graduates than ever are working two jobs to make ends meet. As this article explains, it is not merely social service and art majors who are having difficulty. Marketing and other business-oriented job seekers are also being forced to take on multiple jobs to support themselves. Numerous factors have contributed to this trend: rising costs of living in many areas, increases in college loan payments, and, of course, stagnation in wages. For many college graduates new to the workforce, the idea of having two jobs and 50-60+ hour workweeks is becoming unavoidable.

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