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Unemployment rate among college grads is really 16%

1 in 7 College Grads Earn Less Than the Poverty Threshold
Last Updated: April 4, 2022
Majority of College Grads Do Not Work in Their Field of Study

In addition to dealing with financial insecurity, only 46% of college grads surveyed say they ...

The United States of Fraud
From shoplifting to gamifying returns, America's consumers are turning into cheaters.

By Emily Stewart
Dec 14, 2025, 3:27 AM CT

I always get a kick out of people's reactions when I bring up what I've come to think of as "mini crimes" against big businesses — small acts ...

...failed name brand equipment that is less than 3 years old that a few decades ago would have been trouble free for 10 or 20 years...

This isn't the only example, but we have a Carrier furnace that is just over 2 years old that failed to blow warm air when it started this Fall. Because the HVAC ...

Why Are There So Many Somalians in Minnesota?
Thomas English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viha_7K9vC0

Do you want to know
8:18
what today in 2025 the workforce
8:20
participation of people of Somali uh
8:23
diaspora in the United States is? It's
8:26
something like 35%
8:28
which means that ...

Let's hope for our sake that he remains "absolutely not ready". I do think he's right about where the greatest risks lie.

The 10 biggest threats facing humanity, according to Bill Gates

The world’s unpreparedness for the next pandemic

Gates is giving us some scary odds for the next great ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/10/china-will-destroy-us-military-fight-over-taiwan/

China would destroy US military in fight over Taiwan, top secret document warns

Beijing’s hypersonic missiles ‘could sink US aircraft carriers within minutes’

China would defeat the US ...

Good to see you, Iceman.

It's hard to know what's going wrong in the elementary schools. The Modesto Teacher's Association had some ideas in the link above. I think it has to be realized, though, that the forces creating collapse all interrelate to some extent and it's hard to go back to tried and true solutions from the ...

After I posted earlier today, a parent of one of my daughter's classmates was saying all but 2 of the public elementary schools in Pflugerville, Texas have basically collapsed and aren't worth sending your kids to. According to her, school after school has collapsed in that district over the past ...

Prepare for automotive sticker shock next year – again.

Average new car prices briefly topped $50,000 in September for the first time, before slipping back under that level in October.

But now, automotive experts say, car prices are headed back over that level. And this time, they might stay ...