Dealing with higher unemployment rates, young Americans find job search can take months at a time
- US adds 209,000 jobs in July as unemployment rate rises to 6.2%
- Student loan debt hits a new high as millennials take poverty-wage jobs
For policy wonks and economists, the first Friday of every month is a jobs day a day when the US department of labour releases its latest employment numbers and unemployment rate.
For 24-year-old Miriam Braverman, pounding the pavements to answer Craigslist ads, every day is a jobs day until she finds a job.
I know very few people who have just one job, especially in New York. Living here is so expensive. It eats up your checking account really quickly.
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