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The labor market in the United States is starting to show signs of recovery, but for many young workers the recovery is not happening fast enough. Although the national unemployment rate is now the lowest it has been in two years, one study suggests the job prospects for 16 to 24-year-olds remains grim. Americas youth faces an increasingly uncertain future. Despite a slowly improving job market, economist Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute says young workers have yet to see similar gains.Young people across the board have never seen anything like this in 70 years, said Heidi Shierholz. Since the Great Depression we have not seen unemployment rates this high. With unemployment rates more than twice the national average, Shierholz says the graduating Class of 2011 faces fierce competition for fewer jobs. New college grads are in direct competition with those from last year and those from the year before that, when the unemployment rate was also incredibly high, so theres just extremely stiff competition for new jobs for young people, she said. George Washington University law student Elliot Reaven feels good about his career choices but he admits it is an intimidating economy for many students. Im optimistic, said Elliot Reaven. I think people are working on getting it better, but I think people are generally pretty discouraged right now and Im with that sentiment. Instead of having to compete against experienced workers for fewer entry level jobs, chemistry student Dan Foreman plans to ride out the storm until the economy improves. Theyre not looking too good right now, so I plan to go to grad[uate] school, get my Ph.D. and maybe then Ill have a more marketable degree, said Dan Foreman. But times have changed. Professor Ayman Tarabishy at GWs (George Washington Universitys) School of Business says degrees are no longer as important as marketable skills. Dont just mention that you graduated from X school or Y school and this is