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Approximately 3.5 million students in the United States graduate from college each year, with around 5,000 of them coming from Fresno State. More than a million of these students fail to find a job that pays well and has career potential.

An average day for many students consists of attending class, juggling work responsibilities and coming home to air-conditioning and a soft bed. Student life can be demanding and stressful, but for many in Fresno, simply getting enough food, finding a place to sleep and surviving the day are the only things they can afford to be concerned with.

Fresno State students and faculty respond to the new of the recession’s end.

According to Kevin Williamson at National Review Online, America’s debt is “more than all of the money in the world.” If this doesn’t wake our country’s leaders up to the debt/deficit crisis we are currently facing, nothing will. On the bright side, President Obama recently announced his plan to stimulate the economy—injecting $50 billion into [...]

McClatchy Tribune
WASHINGTON — The most severe economic recession since the Great Depression is history, economists said Tuesday.
At least one economist said the report showed a sharp jump in the Institute for Supply Management’s factory index.

The American people need economic security. Forty-six million Americans are uninsured. Costs go up year after year. This is a travesty. We need health care reform, and we need it now.

Sound familiar?

This year, money is the driving factor for a growing number of high school seniors, who are spreading out the acceptance letters and crunching the numbers to decide what colleges to attend this fall.

The American economy is in turmoil. The housing market collapsed. Companies small and large are going out of business. The automobile industry is crying for bail outs, banks and investors are broke and we are spending billions of dollars that we don’t have.

It seems there is nothing like an economic recession to kick you right into graduate school.