Young and Jobless: How the Job Market is Hurting Recent Grads' Futures

If you’re a recent or soon-to-be college grad, you’re probably going through a mix of emotions.  Undoubtedly, you’re happy to have your degree. However, you’re also stuck within a less than unforthcoming transition. Unless you’re one of the few with a job lined up, you’ve gone from student to unemployed overnight.  

Couple this with the bleak fact that the average student loan debt rose to $26,600 for class of 2011--up about five percent from the class of 2011.  Not a very promising outlook for all the hard work you've just gone through for the past four years or more.