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A comment on Curse of class of '09.

Re:Curse of class of '09 by Dilpil on Saturday May 09, 2009 @07:05PM (#601554)
"For a typical worker, that would mean earning $100,000 less over the 18-year period."

That is not at all a frightening statistic.

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Re:Curse of class of '09 by kwamenum86 on Saturday May 09, 2009 @07:39PM (#601590)
That is an average of 5500+ dollars per year, ~463 per month. Depending on who you ask that is a big deal.
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Re:Curse of class of '09 by ojbyrne on Sunday May 10, 2009 @12:55AM (#601823)
Just to rephrase (Class of '83 here). You will make less, work harder, and have less opportunities, entirely because of the year you graduated university.
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