Ceremonies have been cancelled and internships have vanished as a new round of graduates step into a world hobbled by the pandemic
Monique Guerra will graduate from the University of California, Riverside, this week with a double major in education and Spanish. But, like so many other students in their final year of study, she hasn’t figured out what happens next.
The class of 2020 is on a rollercoaster ride, whiplashed by Covid-19’s carnage across the United States. Dozens of institutions have cancelled or postponed in-person graduation ceremonies in the name of public health. And graduates such as Guerra are facing the daunting prospect of having to elbow their way into the worst labor market since the Great Depression, after more than 40 million people filed unemployment claims since mid-March.
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3cPHDYd
