They're supposed to have the world at their feet, America's new college graduates. With shining faces, well-polished phrases and crisply pressed suits, they go in search of that first job and, at least in the past several years, have usually clinched it in short order. But not this time. The math is cruel and inescapable: About 1.4 million people will graduate from college and graduate schools this year, and the U.S. has lost 2 million jobs in the recession.
U.S. companies are feeling the pinch of hard times and are cutting down on campus recruiting. A Michigan State University survey on...
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