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The latest Labor Department report, released Friday, shows unemployment at its highest level in 25 years. According to the report, US employers shed 651,000 jobs in February. Among the hardest hit sectors were professional and business services, construction, and banking. Government is one of the few areas showing any type of growth, and that means growing interest in government jobs from college students who once coveted corporate cubicles.
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The latest Labor Department report, released Friday, shows unemployment at its highest level in 25 years. According to the report, US employers shed 651,000 jobs in February. Among the hardest hit sectors were professional and business services, construction, and banking. Government is one of the few areas showing any type of growth, and that means growing interest in government jobs from college students who once coveted corporate cubicles.
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The New Lure of Government Jobs
Lauren Silverman, Youth Radio
1:40
Intro: The latest Labor Department report released Friday (2/6) shows unemployment at its highest level in 25 years. According to the report, US employers shed 651,000 jobs in February, and among the hardest hit sectors were professional and business services, construction, and banking. Government is one of the few areas showing any type of growth, and that means college students like Youth Radio’s Lauren Silverman are showing increasing interest in government jobs instead of corporate cubicles.
Script:
It used to be when I asked my friends about where they wanted to work after graduation, I got the typical responses: an investment firm, a hospital, a university, a small business. Only a few said they wanted to be politicians, and even fewer said they wanted to be government employees. Just like my friends, I ran from g...
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INTRO:The latest Labor Department report released Friday (2/6) shows unemployment at its highest level in 25 years. According to the report, US employers shed 651,000 jobs in February, and among the hardest hit sectors were professional and business services, construction, and banking. Government is one of the few areas showing any type of growth, and that means college students like Youth Radio’s Lauren Silverman are showing increasing interest in government jobs instead of corporate cubicles.
OUTRO:Lauren Silverman's story was produced by Youth Radio.
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Review of "The New Lure of Government Jobs"
This year's graduating college seniors face desperate times in the job market, and Youth Radio's Lauren Silverman pinpoints the ongoing shift in focus for aspiring professionals: jobs in the government sector are in, and the private sector is out. As Silverman perceptively notes, "friend-ing" a new contact from Goldman Sachs on Facebook seems like a waste of time now, when networking with a Capitol Hill intern may more likely lead to a stable job opportunity. Silverman's writing is insightful, and her delivery is smooth. This audio commentary would serve as a refreshing injection of "youth perspective" on the current economic crisis for a public affairs program.