Author: Dhanika Pineda

Graduates in the class of 2026 are navigating an unusually choppy labor market. We talked to three fresh grads about their post-grad experience so far. Transcript AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Summer break is when college students can finally exhale after a long school year. But if they just wrapped up their final year in school, they might still be holding their breath. Graduates in the class of 2026 are navigating an unusually weak labor market, where unemployment for young workers, age 22 to 27, has risen at nearly double the rate of the rise in overall unemployment. That’s according to an…