How many people think they are owed a job?

No one should be owed a job, but colleges need serious reform. There should be laws that prevent them from advertising certain majors for which there are few jobs. Students should only take classes related to their majors. College advisers should explain to incoming freshmen all about their major and the jobs available after they graduate.

I am a republican and against OWS movement, but students do need some safety net after they graduate. Government should help them find jobs. Often times incoming freshmen are clueless about what to major in and colleges advise them to major in field for which there are few jobs. College have become a money making institutions, which need serious reform.

When I graduated college, it took me two years to find a job. No one wanted a college grad with no relevant work experience. Most people in my college class also had difficulty finding jobs. The field (teaching) that high schools and college advertised was in demand was in fact not in demand at all.

Without safety net, there will be a large number of unemployed students who will become a burden for the government by applying for governmental assistance. If government finds them jobs, they will become taxpaying workers. I never applied for welfare, even when I was unemployed, but for many college grads it might be the only way to survive.

Outside of minimum wage and safe work conditions, a workplace free from harassment or bias, nothing else should be a guarantee. If you DID offer more, that would be your incentive to attract better personnel, but then your right to tighten the criteria would also exist, ie, you are not going to get anyone with any sales experience on min wage, and anyone thinking otherwise would be out of business shortly after the doors open.

Most of the Democratic Party, along with everyone who supports the provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prohibits private employers from discriminating in who they hire.