The Young And the Wageless

摘要

A year after graduating from college, 23-year-old Alison Foster is living with her parents in Arlington, Va., and getting by on a part-time, temporary job. Along with a degree in environmental sciences from the University of Vermont, her resume includes prestigious internships with a member of Congress and the National Park Service, and yet no offers have come. "I didn't anticipate that a year out I would be barely making any money at all," she says. Foster's discontent is a problem for Barack Obama. Many of the young voters crucial to his election of 2008, are now having second thoughts about him-and about whether they'll bother to vote at all this election. Sixty-six percent of voters under 30 cast ballots for Obama in 2008. Turnout among young people was the highest in 16 years.