More Jobs and Better Pay for this years college graduates?

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http://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article83251.html

Interesting article from career builder. Lots of good information.

Is this true with your recent graduate?

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We aren’t going to have lasting private sector job growth until barriers to expansion and entry are lowered.

And if there were a way to bring overseas jobs home, we would have tried it. Right?

Have we lowered the corporate tax rate? Ours is among the highest in the world. (And yes, friends on the Left, most large corps don’t pay it; but it’s a real problem for small and medium businesses. And I figure the more business-friendly climate might even inspire some large corps filling jobs overseas… to bring some jobs home. It’s all about our freaking high cost. Lowering that would help.)

  • I have pondered the utility of fining American companies X amount for each job filled by someone who is not a USA citizen. But how would we make them pay it, and could such a penalty be enforced?
  • ...and then if they do bring jobs home, we reward them -- some type of tax break.

These are not new ideas surely, but something has to be done to make our business climate more pro-entrepreneur and pro-investor. Consumer and labor demand are always adequately high to support job growth.

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I don’t know if we can have penalty it’s a private corporation they can hire who they want. But a tax break for companies who keep jobs in the USA sounds like a good idea to me. Also we as US citizens should start voting with our dollars. We should buy and support companies who hire people in the USA. That includes oversea corps who have branches and jobs here in the US.

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Lower tax rates with fewer special interest deductions, credits, and loopholes would help, but getting rid of special interest deductions, credits, and loopholes tends to face fierce lobbying resistance from those who benefit from them.

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From the above linked article…

."…According to a new survey from CareerBuilder, 65 percent of employers say they plan to hire recent college graduates this year, up from 57 percent last year and the highest outlook since 2007. One third will offer higher pay than last year, and 1 in 4 will pay $50,000 or more…"

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Nah. There are plenty of ways to bring jobs home, but those who hold the purse strings prefer the status quo. (Ending here to avoid becoming political).

This isn’t all that surprising. I graduated undergrad 3 years ago and the economy had already picked up by then. I don’t think recent grads are finding the job market as hard as the media wants to make it seem.