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{CNBC 3 October} For first-time job hunters, a college degree isn’t unlocking the opportunities it once did, data shows
‘No country for young grads’. A labour market of anaemic hiring and grudging firing is disproportionately scourging the newly credentialled. Unemployment among recent graduates has risen to a nine-year peak, with no prospect of relief—least of all as artificial intelligence begins to drastically reconfigure workforces both great and small. Bearing in mind that this malaise is not confined to the former United States, it remains nonetheless symptomatic of a deeper affliction besetting our dying nation: wherever one looks—government, corporate boardrooms, or the spaces between—one beholds a polity grown too vast, too unwieldy to endure. It has become the ultimate victim of its own success. Now the reckoning has come; we are paying the piper, and the edifice collapses around us. —Arthur Newhook, 3 October 2025.
{alternate text for the above image} A stylised illustration portrays a young woman in graduation robes and mortarboard seated despondently on a park bench. Tears streak her face as she clutches her diploma, its red seal stark against the gloom. Beside her rests a makeshift sign reading “DEGREE = JOB”, its irony underscored by a nearby newspaper whose headline declares “Job Market Collapse – No Prospects for Grads”. The backdrop of a grey, leafless park with looming city towers deepens the sense of futility, framing her as a symbol of betrayed aspirations: educated yet abandoned, caught between ceremonial achievement and the economic void that renders it meaningless.
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