Share TweetFINDING ANSWERSBy FORMER SENATOR JOEY D. LINAIt’s that time of year when fresh college graduates or even some senior high school graduates have to confront the realities beyond the academic world as they become active jobseekers. By educational attainment, 20.9 percentof the unemployed were college graduates, 8.2 percent were college undergraduates, and 28.2 percent have completed junior high school,” the PSA said. But with a tight job market at a time when more graduates join the ranks of active jobseekers, finding gainful employment would not be easy. But other average graduates from average schools are destined to fight it out in a battle for survival of the fittest. A 2018 SWS survey showed a mere 2.7 percent of households headed by college graduates “experienced cases of moderate hunger, and none was severe.”For households with no college graduates, the difference was glaring as shown in the SWS survey: “Hunger percentage was 12.0 among families of high school graduates who did not finish college, 13.8 among those of elementary graduates who did not finish high school, and 21.1 among those who did not finish elementary.

Source: Manila Bulletin May 21, 2019 08:48 UTC