Job market for recent college grads Even though employment rates are up, studies show that optimism about the future for recent college grads is at an all-time low. What can young people expect from today's job market?9:06 a.m.
Guests
Catherine Rampell: New York Times economics journalist and editor of the Economix blog on nytimes.com
Andrew M. Sum: Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University
Exploring misunderstood words with the Oxford etymologist Midmorning's word expert returns to discuss the most commonly misunderstood words in the English language. He also helps to decipher some of the toughest words from this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee.10:06 a.m.
Guests
Anatoly Liberman: Professor in the Department of German, Scandanavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Etymology for Everyone: Word Origins and How We Know Them.
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