‘Panicking’: Why recent college grads are struggling to find jobs

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Azraiel Raines dreamed of working for the State Department, when she graduated from Idaho State University with a degree in global studies.

But the State Department is not hiring. In fact it cut more than 1,300 jobs this past week as part of a broader government downsizing.

Azraiel Raines graduated from Idaho State University with a degree in global studies. She had hoped to work for the State Department, but took a job with her alma mater instead.

“My very first avenue was poof, gone,” Raines says.

Read more at NPR.

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