The Moderate Republican

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hate to be rude but its tough for me to have sympathy when i started my first business at 19 with 50$ for business cards and gas.

look at the real reasons you dont make more than you do. you are responsible for yourself. blaming a president is convenient and easy.

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Chris -

I'm willing to bet that you can find qualified engineering candidates in the U.S. if you offer to pay for their relocation costs.

I thought about this last night after putting in my last post. One of the reasons it's so difficult for someone out of work to find a new job is that frequently a new job is in another state or at the other end of your state, as jobs and companies migrate around the country. If you're out of work, it's tough to get a job in another state because it means putting out a few thousand dollars to relocate, thousands of dollars that most unemployed people don't have to spare.

And many companies don't offer relocation assistance to U.S. candidates - but they will to potential hires from India or China. Many U.S. candidates won't bother applying for a position if it involves a move - either because moving is too costly, or their spouse doesn't want to or can't leave his/her job, or because they know that many companies have a policy of only considering "local candidates."

Anyway - my two cents on relocation. I think that many companies could find qualified candidates in this country if they paid for relocation costs.

I work at a high tech company as an engineer. Starting salary is about 65K, but we can't find any Americans to hire. So far, the only canidates we could find were from Canada, Korea and India.

That issue of underemployment, I believe, could become a fiery election issue IF the administration's opponents know how to take hold of it. It is incredibly misleading for the president to tell us the job situation is getting better, that more people are working, when that is merely the surface truth. Dig deeper and you find college graduates working for $10 an hour in an office totally unrelated to their field; you have PhD level engineers searching for entry-level jobs; you have highly skilled and highly experienced laborers consenting to jobs at McDonald's or Wal-Mart. When I was laid off, I went searching for jobs in my area, and discovered that I was competing for entry-level jobs against people with 15-20 years of experience, versus my mere 5. I gave up on that.

Underemployment has no hard statistics - but if a candidate were to speak to that issue, if he could simply take hold of that and run with it, he would probably tap into the frustration of hundreds of thousands, even millions, of American voters.

I don't have a clue what such a person might say or what solutions they could propose. Part of the problem lies with the companies, public or private or non-profit or otherwise, that cut their costs by reclassifying jobs as part-time with no benefits, or hire temporary workers to do full-time jobs. They simply refuse to offer employment, offering instead underemployment and not giving other options.

But the issue is there for someone to take hold of.

I have a BS and I cashier at a convenience store. I keep looking for something better. One example:last year I applied for an entry level library assistant position at the local university. It only paid around 1600/mo., but they e-mailed me to tell me they had over 90 applicants(I'm trying to get into an MLS program myself.).

In addition to entry-level, low paying jobs, you have the issue of colleges hiring "adjunct faculty" and not having many full time positions with benefits available. Also we have a place locally where proficiency tests are scored. It's a temp job, but the work is fairly steady from spring through fall. To do this job, you need a college degree. The stereotype is that elderly, retired people usually do this work, but that is not the case. A lot of people in their 20s and 30s are willing and available to do the work because, hey, you gotta eat!