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Graduating College Students Face Shrinking Job Market
by Pharoh Martin, NNPA National Correspondent

WASHINGTON (NNPA)-
The mangled state of today’s economy isn’t giving this year’s class of graduating college students much optimism about securing employment after they cross that stage.

The Bureau of Labor statistics estimates as many 1.4 million college graduates are about to enter a severely contracted job market that seems to be getting worse.

For many, the anxiety of figuring out life after school, in some ways, trumps the joys of finishing the four-year college grind. The worries are worse for Black graduates, who are historically among the first fired and the last hired, according to statistics.

Depressing job prospects are leading many African-American grads in search of alternatives to the traditional 9-to-5. ‘’I’ve taken a job teaching English in South Korea,’’ said Atrice Williams, preparing to graduate from Washington, D.C.-based Howard University May 9.

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Tables turn in discrimination lawsuit
Lexington nurse now being asked to pay employers legal expenses

The saying goes: The wheels of justice turn slowly.

Since 2005 several local nurses have been embroiled in a dispute with their former employer, Select Specialty Hospital and parent Select Medical Corporation (SMC), a long-term hospital located within UK Healthcare’s Samaritan Hospital on Limestone Street in Lexington.

After weeks of depositions in 2008, days of protests in 2007, and searching for new jobs the nurses expected to have their day in court in January 2009.

However, the day before their attorney contacted them and explained that Judge Joseph Hood threw their cases out of court.

Plaintiffs, Monica Hall (now Heuston), Rotasha Jackson, Tisha Spencer, Cabrina Logan and Pauline Robinette all claim that while employed by Select they were discriminated against and treated unjustly by superiors and co-workers based on their race and Hall and Jackson allege that they were fired in retaliation for filing complaints with the Lexington Human Rights Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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