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Studies show some students are not preparing for life after college

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For the many college graduates that are still searching for a job after graduating—you are not alone. The unemployment rate for college graduates is about 2 percent as of May 2018, and has been dropping slightly since the beginning of 2018. This rate is also lower than the general unemployment rate in the United States, which sits at 3.8 percent. Although unemployment rates for people with a college degree seem to be pretty low, some college students have a difficult time finding employment post-graduation. “After graduating, I hadn’t gotten a job in my field, nor did I set up plans to immediately go back to school so I was nervous,” Victoria Bond, a 2017 graduate from Tuskegee University, said.”I started looking for jobs in my field and it proved to be a struggle.

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New Yorkers are throwing away more textiles instead of recycling, study finds

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NEW YORK — New York City residents are throwing away less than they did 12 years ago, according to the Department of Sanitation’s Waste Characterization Survey released in April. The average household pitched less than 1,990 pounds of waste in 2017. That’s down from about 2,280 pounds in 2005. But less than a quarter of what residents set out on the curb each week belongs in a landfill. Recyclable materials such as paper, plastic, metal and glass make about 68 percent of the 3.1 million tons of waste that is thrown out.

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Michigan’s female religious leaders overcome obstacles for their calling

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Despite most religious vocations being dominated men, many Michigan women continue to step up as religious leaders. A call to a life dedicated to God transcends gender, but many religions continue to restrict positions to men only. Even when women find a denomination that allows them to go into any position, societal perceptions create barriers. Some mid-Michigan women have chosen to follow their calling despite facing obstacles. Even at a young age, Rev. Kit Carlson of the All Saints Episcopal Church, was discouraged from “getting the wrong idea” that she may be called to be a pastor.

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The importance of international schools

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Having diversity in directors and the staff at schools helps to guide students into a new culture and learn more about it. This helps them to become more social in the world to not being limited to just one culture. This will only definitely better a person in many different avenues and expand their social lives.

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5 things to do in downtown Detroit

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There are many renovations coming to Downtown Detroit. It’s almost becoming a tourist city. Since the NBA decided to move the Pistons to downtown Detroit have been

Now all three of the sports teams are located in Downtown Detroit. There is going to be constant traffic and people Downtown. There are many new features in Detroit a lot of people that’s not from Detroit or never been to Detroit don’t know much about.

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Local entrepreneur says key to success is time management

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There are 24 hours in one day. The dilemma that some people face is that they find it hard to maximize their time in that 24-hour span. For Akeem Croft, time management is a major key to having great success in life. Croft serves full time as the Brody Neighborhood Community Director at Michigan State University, the on-campus advisor for Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and United Brody Black Caucus, and an instructor in the College of Education on campus. In addition to the jobs he works during the day, Croft also drives for Uber and Lyft when he is not on the clock.

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MSU senior uses artwork to make his mark

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Demarco Jackson has always had a passion for art and his artistic skill is something that has made his work popular amongst peers. The Michigan State University senior is majoring in studio art with a concentration in painting. He said that art is what he was most talented in as a child. “I wanted to learn how to perfect my craft in art,” Jackson said. “Watching some of my favorite anime shows like ‘Dragon Ball Z’ and ‘Naruto’ encouraged me to create my own style, and it influenced me to start creating my own language of art and helped me develop more originality.”

As talented and creative as the Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Prostitution In Michigan: The fight for advocacy

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Sex work can be defined as any form of employment that falls under the sex industry. Forms of this may include exotic dancing, prostitution, sex operators, pornography actors and actresses, and more. In Michigan, prostitution is referred to as an act of offering, performing, or consenting to sexual conduct for payment. Solicitation, however, is the act of seeking sexual services for hire with the intentions of payment. In Michigan, both acts are prosecutable crimes.

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One teen’s passion for developing apps

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Hussein El Feky first became interested in programming when he was 13. What started out as a passion for building things, ended up developing into a love for program and application building. “At that point, I only learned a lot of basic concepts from random articles on the internet,” he said. Two years later, El Feky, of Cairo, Egypt, caught “the programming bug” and started getting serious about building phone apps, specifically for Android. “My first phone was an Android device, and I can easily say I fell in love with the operating system,” he said.