{"id":7190,"date":"2025-07-13T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7190\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:50:07","slug":"educated-but-unemployed-a-rising-reality-for-us-college-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7190\/","title":{"rendered":"Educated but unemployed, a rising reality for US college grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tEducated but unemployed, a rising reality for US college grads<\/p>\n<p>  &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"#main\" class=\"skip-link\">Skip to content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"oe-margin-remove-bottom has-medium-font-size\">Structural shifts in tech hiring and the growing impact of AI are driving higher unemployment among recent college graduates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"oe-margin-remove-top oe-text-medium uk-text-bold\">Higher recent college graduate unemployment will add to the Federal Reserve\u2019s concerns of a slowing economy, weakening labor market, and accelerating inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Higher unemployment among recent college graduates is primarily a function of a structural shift in hiring in the tech sector amid strong labor supply growth. While some of it is related to a normalization after the post-pandemic surge, there are signs that entry-level positions are being displaced by artificial intelligence at higher rates.<\/p>\n<p>Despite uncertain employment prospects, recent college graduates remain undeterred, as labor force participation rates haven\u2019t noticeably declined. <\/p>\n<p>Underemployment rates for college graduates and employment in positions that don\u2019t require a college degree remain steady, signaling that graduates aren\u2019t shifting their job searches.<\/p>\n<p>You might also be interested in<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gb-container-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/service-category\/macro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>This report was brought to you by the GLOBAL MACRO SERVICE TEAM. <\/p>\n<p>Reliable and consistent macroeconomic forecasts, analysis, models and scenarios provide the insight necessary to make informed decisions in a fast-changing world.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gb-button gb-button-508db345\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/service-category\/macro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unlock the power of economics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      Select to close video modal<\/p>\n<p>      Select to close video modal<\/p>\n<p>      Play Video<br \/>\n      Select to play video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\" class=\"gm02__logo\" aria-label=\"Select to return to the homepage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/wp-content\/themes\/oxford-economics\/assets\/svg\/logo.svg\" alt=\"Select to return to the homepage\" class=\"gm02__logo-image\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gm02__copyright\">\u00a9 Oxford Economics 2025 all rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>\t\t  \t\tShare\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"oe-position-relative\" width=\"32\" alt=\"Australian content links popup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/australia.svg\" title=\"australia\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Services you might be interested in<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tX Close\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>symbol\/arrow LEFTsymbol\/arrow RIGHTPathFill 1Combined Shapeicon-arrow-lefticon-arrow-rightPathRectanglePathicon calendarPathPathicon-circle-playClose IconEmailShapeExternal iconFacebookInstagramLinkedInShapeicon-mouseTelephoneShapeicon-pinterestPlay iconProfile icon??PathShapeFill 1IconPathicon-twitterWe Chaticon-youtubeLogo_OxEc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Educated but unemployed, a rising reality for US college grads &#13; &#13; &#13; Skip to content &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,2800,134,7516,7517,3479,2457,7518,7519],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-federal-reserve","tag-jobs","tag-labour-trends","tag-monthly-resource-hub","tag-trump","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-us-economy","tag-us-labor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}