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Across the country, college seniors are donning their caps and gowns, listening to lofty addresses by famous and not so famous commencement speakers, and entering “the real world.” In boom years of the past, many of these seniors would already have a job lined up. Not so this year. Youth Radio’s Emma Jacobs is a senior who just graduated from Columbia University with a history degree and without a job.
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Across the country, college seniors are donning their caps and gowns, listening to lofty addresses by famous and not so famous commencement speakers, and entering “the real world.” In boom years of the past, many of these seniors would already have a job lined up. Not so this year. Youth Radio’s Emma Jacobs is a senior who just graduated from Columbia University with a history degree and without a job.
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INTRO:Across the country, college seniors are donning their caps and gowns, listening to lofty addresses by famous and not so famous commencement speakers, and entering “the real world.” In boom years of the past, many of these seniors would already have a job lined up. Not so this year. Youth Radio’s Emma Jacobs is a senior who just graduated from Columbia University with a history degree and without a job. She sent this report.
OUTRO:Emma Jacobs’s story was produced by Youth Radio.
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