From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow. This is the Daily.

For the past decade, a simple message has been delivered to a generation of American students.

If you learn to code and get a computer science degree, then you'll get a

job with a six-figure salary. But as my colleague, Natasha Singer, found out, thousands of students

who followed that advice are discovering that the promise was empty.

It's Monday, September 29th.

Natasha.

Michael.

Thank you for coming back on the show.

Thanks for having me.

You, Natasha, came to us with a counterintuitive

observation, which is that at this moment that on paper seems like a highly lucrative

opportunity in the world of tech because of the boom and artificial intelligence,

this moment is turning out to be a bust for those recent college grads trying to get into the tech industry.

That's unexpected.

It's completely unexpected.

We've seen over the last two years a kind of remarkable spike in unemployment among recent

college grads seeking software engineering and other tech jobs. And let me give you some numbers

just to illustrate that. Among recent college grads, age 22 to 27, computer science and computer

engineering majors are facing some of the highest

unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 respectively, according to this new report from the Federal

Reserve Bank of New York. And what does that compare with everybody else? That's more than twice the

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