http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/sunday-review/the-idled-young-americans.html?ref=opinion
This article highlights the little discussed fact that over the past 10 years, the United States has become the highest unemployment rate for citizens between the ages of 25-34 among the top economic countries. It starts off with a meaningful cartoon depicting college students leaving their campus and going straight to the unemployment office. Next, it elaborates on to the discrepancy between the county's modest economic recovery -- even better than most European countries -- and our weak growth in jobs for young adults. However, the article does add that that statistic does include post-bachelor education and young adults caring for children. Nonetheless, they are still a significantly poor numbers. The article ends with a few suggestions toward this recovery, most of them involving government support in fields that seem "unprofitable" and not monetarily useful, and a word of optimism.
This article highlights the little discussed fact that over the past 10 years, the United States has become the highest unemployment rate for citizens between the ages of 25-34 among the top economic countries. It starts off with a meaningful cartoon depicting college students leaving their campus and going straight to the unemployment office. Next, it elaborates on to the discrepancy between the county's modest economic recovery -- even better than most European countries -- and our weak growth in jobs for young adults. However, the article does add that that statistic does include post-bachelor education and young adults caring for children. Nonetheless, they are still a significantly poor numbers. The article ends with a few suggestions toward this recovery, most of them involving government support in fields that seem "unprofitable" and not monetarily useful, and a word of optimism.
Strangely enough, the author's credibility is established immediately after the article itself, stating "David Leonhardt is the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times." Leonhardt's successful strategies to reach his ideas out to the audience include his use of statistic contrast and an objective view of the problem and solution. For example, two graphs on the side show how America has lost its lead in employment among young adults and forms a connection to what other countries have done on this issue. Also, Leonhardt offers suggestions for fixing this situation without bashing someone else's opinion as well as speculates how this problem arose in the first place.
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