🇺🇸 Half of college graduates are working high school level job

A recent joint report by two research firms revealed that within a year of graduation, approximately 52% of recent bachelor's degree recipients in the US are employed in positions that do not require a college education.

The majority of these graduates, comprising 88%, find themselves in underemployment situations within five years of graduating, often working in high school-level jobs such as office support, food service, and retail. The report, conducted by the Burning Glass Institute and the Strada Education Foundation, analyzed the career paths of 60 million individuals in the US, including 10.8 million bachelor's degree holders.

Despite the expectation that a bachelor's degree would lead to better job prospects, many graduates do not achieve the economic outcomes they anticipated. While underemployed graduates earn approximately 25% more than workers with only a high school diploma, this falls significantly short of the earnings of those in degree-requiring roles, who earn 88% more than high school graduates.

The report highlights that the choice of field of study also plays a crucial role. Fields that require quantitative reasoning, such as engineering, finance and accounting, and computer science, have lower five-year underemployment rates. Conversely, fields like public safety and security, recreation and wellness studies, and marketing and business management have higher underemployment rates.

🔗 https://unusualwhales.com/news/half-of-college-graduates-are-working-high-school-level-job

🇾🇪❌🇬🇧🇧🇿 Rubymar cargo ship attacked by Houthis has sunk, Yemeni government says

The Rubymar cargo ship, attacked last month, has sunk in the southern Red Sea, Yemen's internationally recognised government said in a statement on Saturday.

If verified, it would be the first vessel lost since Houthi militants began targeting commercial shipping in November.

The government statement said the ship sunk on Friday night and warned of an "environmental catastrophe".

The ship was carrying more than 41,000 tons of fertilizer when it came under attack, the U.S. military's Central Command previously said.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/freighter-rubymar-has-sunk-red-sea-yemen-internationally-recognised-government-2024-03-02/

🇾🇪❌🇬🇧🇧🇿 Video of the partially sunk Rubymar, filmed some time before its complete sinking.

The British bulk carrier, Rubymar, was first struck by Houthi missiles on February 19.

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🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱 Ron DeSantis’ Florida Senate unanimously votes to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s official definition of anti-Semitism.

🔗 https://apnews.com/article/antisemitism-florida-government-5e49cf0ac95df5fd2d22a4ab4c7c1c3b

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🇺🇸 Gucci Goddess to Fat Leonard

Army lost $108m to the Gucci Goddess thru fraud between 2016-2022. The Navy lost no where near that much in money but compromised the security of ship port visits thru Fat Leonard’s network.

Reading about the Gucci Goddess at a time DoD needs every dollar going to weapons and recruitment, illustrates the seeming ease such fraud can be done.

A focus on enforcement and oversight is overdue. Overseas contracting is a fact of life for deployed forces. Growth in NCIS agents to do this one option.

Will the money recouped from the Gucci Goddess go back to the Army? It should and be invested in family housing, DoD schools other quality of life issues.

🔗 https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/army-employee-janet-mello-pleads-guilty-stealing-more-than-100m-army-purchase-luxury-items

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🦠💉 It’s Official: We Can Pretty Much Treat Covid Like the Flu Now. Here’s a Guide.

New guidelines from the CDC Friday bring Covid precautions in line with with those of other respiratory viruses

A case of Covid no longer means isolating for five days, according to the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday. It’s the latest sign of the virus’s normalization four years after it upended our lives.

📝 ... and then one day, four years later on a Friday afternoon when no one was looking, the CDC admitted that the great conspiracy theory about Covid was true.

🔗 https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/covid-guidelines-2024-cdc-symptoms-contagious-cdefb6b8

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🇺🇸❌🇾🇪 Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea are doubling shipping costs to the United States and having real human impacts—increasing the costs of food, medicine, and fuel.

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🇺🇸🏦📈 Jim Reid, Deutsche Bank’s head of global economics and thematic research, has said that the U.S. stock market is “rivalling 2000 and 1929 in terms of being its most concentrated in history.”

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🇺🇸✈️ Can Biocement Help the Air Force Build New Runways in the Pacific?

Hidden among the high-tech sensors, weapons, and other gadgets on display at the AFA Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo., earlier this month were a handful of bricks that could someday play a key role in how the military projects airpower in a future conflict.

The bricks were not made in a cement mixer. Instead, they were made with a biomanufacturing process where naturally-occurring bacteria converts road salt and an organic compound called urea into biocement, a hardened surface that may be able to take the weight of a landing or taxiing aircraft or a heavy ground vehicle. Using biocement to build a runway or road in a remote location could shave months of prep time and tons of equipment off the traditional methods.

Biocement is a promising technology at a time when the Air Force is pursuing the concept of Agile Combat Employment, where small teams launch and recover from remote or austere locations and can move quickly to new airfields. Part of the challenge of operating from smaller airfields is that there is not much space to land or park an aircraft.

Wilsbach later said in 2023 that PACAF wants to clear jungles from overgrown World War II-era airfields to get at the concrete and asphalt buried beneath.

“We’re not making super bases anywhere,” he said. “We’re looking for a place to get some fuel and some weapons, maybe get a bite to eat and take a nap and then get airborne again.”

If the Air Force needs to expand runways, ramps, or roads, the usual process of making a paved surface may not be fast or lightweight enough to work in a Pacific conflict, where military airlift and sealift will likely be overburdened moving the rest of the force across the ocean.

“You almost have to build a cement factory and then all the infrastructure to lay down however much asphalt or concrete on top of that,” Meade explained. The process can take months.

🔗 https://www.airandspaceforces.com/biocement-air-force-runway-pacific/

🇺🇸 Arizona rancher John Ladd has found 17 dead bodies on his land which spans 10.5 miles along the U.S. southern border.

Where are all of the crocodile tears from AOC and the Democrats?

Unfortunately, it gets worse. Ladd has a "r*pe tree" on his property where 'guides' r*pe "almost all the women" who cross the border.

The r*pe trees have women's clothes on them which violent gangs use as symbolic "trophies."

Despite Democrats' claims that "walls don't work," the illegals shockingly use the portion of Ladd's land *without* border wall to cross over. 6.5 miles of the 10.5 miles has a border wall.

Ladd carries a Glock at all times in case he ever needs to defend his life.

"I'm in favor of having American citizens and private property owners have more control over their destiny. That's the bottom line," Ladd said.

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🇩🇪📝💥🇷🇺🎢 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Germany Confirms Leaked Audio Of Its Top Generals Discussing Blowing Up The Crimean Bridge | March 02, 2024:

"In a huge development and absolute smoking gun revelation, the government of Germany has confirmed the authenticity of a leaked audio recording file published by Russia's state-backed RT. The leak was first published by RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, who described that she received it from Russian security officials."

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