<p>From a chronic "worrier"</p>
<p>A recent Rutgers study found just over half of young graduates with bachelor's degrees are employed full-time. Of those, many are working jobs that do not require a four-year degree. That, says Van Horn, was uncommon in the past.</p>
<p>For</a> some college grads, getting by means relying on food stamps | Minnesota Public Radio News</p>
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<p>I am suspecting alot more would be on them- but they are living with parents or parents are helping out.</p>
<p>Our S did not have any job until nearly a year after graduation, though he had been hired in Feb. He had to wait until June a year later before his job started. If we weren’t funding him, he would have had to figure out how to shelter and feed himself. I don’t think his case that unusual. I know quite a few kids who didn’t have decent salaries as soon as they graduated & think having a full-time, well-paying job that begins right after you get your degree is more unusual than common among those I know.</p>
<p>This is not new. Some of my classmates in the 1970s used food stamps to get by.</p>
<p>For all that, some of the [employed and otherwise apparently doing just fine]folks in my hometown were surprised to discover that they were eligible for “government cheese” as part of some program.</p>
<p>I know others who were surprised to find out that they were entitled to some government food items, as they were retired but fairly comfortable, living in their own home that they purchased decades before.</p>