CUNY Graduate, 22, Faces Tough Job Hunt as AI and Rising Youth Unemployment Darken Outlook
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 8
CUNY Graduate, 22, Faces Tough Job Hunt as AI and Rising Youth Unemployment Darken Outlook
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 8
Summary
Damir Shavkatov, 22, graduated from Brooklyn College this spring with six internships but still says “the job market is really bad.”
Rising unemployment among young college degree holders and the AI boom’s threat to entry-level work are driving that anxiety, even for candidates with strong résumés.
Shavkatov’s worries underscore pressure on CUNY, a system of about 250,000 students that has long been one of America’s strongest engines of upward mobility.
Many CUNY students come from households earning under $30,000 a year, making a weaker graduate job market a direct test of whether public higher education can still reliably lift families into the middle class.