Self-study
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Future Prediction
The stimulus states that job prospects for college graduates "have never been better," and predicts that this trend will continue over the next decade. As support, the stimulus points to a recent survey showing that most employers weren't prepared for the decrease in college graduates over the last decade and are not aware that the supply of graduates may no longer continue to meet demand. The survey also pointed out a significant decrease in the number of undergraduates studying high-demand subjects — another trend that will likely continue over the next decade.
Analysis: Net Effect
The author points to a number of trends identified by the survey to justify his prediction that job prospects for college graduates will continue to be favorable over the next decade. These trends include the fact that employers were mostly unprepared for a past decrease in the number of college graduates and seem mostly unaware that the supply of graduates may not continue to meet demand in the future, and the fact that fewer undergraduates are studying high-demand subjects, a trend that is itself on track to continue.
From all this information, the author concludes that job prospects for college graduates will continue to be good — i.e., that the net effect of these trends will be ongoing favorable job prospects for graduates. The point is that these trends plausibly allow us to infer that there will soon be a greater demand for college graduates, at least in some fields, than there will be supply. If this were a Flaw question, we could try and expose some assumptions here, but since this is an inference question, we can instead focus on this general inference and move to the answer choices.
Analysis by ArdaschirArguelles
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