{"id":18868,"date":"2010-03-30T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr-finding_a_job_is_hard_for_even_the_most_educated\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:30:28","slug":"npr-finding_a_job_is_hard_for_even_the_most_educated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18868","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8211;Finding A Job Is Hard For Even The Most Educated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a degree in down times can be a liability for some who can&#8217;t find jobs and have massive loans.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional wisdom that getting a degree helps your career is not quite panning out for Shana Berenzweig.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old quit her job at the Texas Medical Association to get a master&#8217;s in public administration at New York University. She worked part time, graduated nearly two years ago and moved back to Austin, Texas. So far, she hasn&#8217;t been able to find a job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very scary to be in this position,&#8221; says Berenzweig, who is trying to make payments on her six-figure school loans with some assistance from her parents and by cobbling together babysitting gigs.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=125223926\">Caught this one on the morning run, it does a good job at getting inside this tough job market.  Listen to or read it all&#8211;KSH<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a degree in down times can be a liability for some who can&#8217;t find jobs and have massive loans. The conventional wisdom that getting a degree helps your career is not quite panning out for Shana Berenzweig. The 33-year-old<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18868\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,111,597,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-education","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}