2025’s college graduates are facing one of the toughest job markets in over a decade. Here’s why

Excluding the pandemic, the unemployment rate for graduates ages 22 to 27 is the highest it’s been in 12 years. While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia.Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn’t found a job in the industry that surrounds her.“It stings a little bit,” she said. “I never...