What's happened in DCPS is tragic — not only that the number of students graduating declined but also that DCPS has been graduating students who aren't prepared for life beyond school.
But if you want official numbers, here they are: Employers estimated that their hiring of recent graduates declined 21.6 percent in 2009, and that it would drop another 7 percent this year.
One young Dartmouth graduate, declining to give his name, said: "It's a singles party masquerading as a networking event.
After graduating, Oosterbaan declined offers to play professional football and baseball.
John J. Abert: Graduated, but declined his commission; after a few months as a lawyer, worked as a civilian in the War Department, then returned to military service: for most of his nearly fifty-year career he was Chief Topographical Engineer of the Army.
Specifically, "the real annual earnings of college graduates actually declined 5.2percentt, while those of high school graduates, strangely enough, rose 1.6percentt".
At the same time, the divorce rate for college graduates has declined from 34.8percentt among those born between 1950 and 1955 to 29.9percentt among those born between 1957 and 1964.
The bank said the increased number of graduates and the shift towards high-skilled jobs had pushed up earnings growth even though the wage premium for graduates had declined.
Last November, a week after Donald Trump was elected President, I spoke on the phone with a fifty-five-year-old divorced college graduate — he declined to specify his alma mater — who had been working as a construction manager in Sacramento, California.
They found that in 1997, black graduate admissions declined 20% and those of Hispanics dropped 18%.
