Obama’s 2008 Young Voters Find Little Hope in Job Market

A year after finishing college, Alison Foster, 23, is living with her parents and scraping by on part-time, temporary project work from an employer she interned with earlier this year.

“I didn’t anticipate that a year out I would be barely making any money at all,” said Foster, from Arlington, Virginia. 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’s Conservation Study Institute, and yet no job offers have come.