Over two years, Rebecca Atkins filed more than 250 job applications, and felt like every one was going into a gaping chasm – one opened by the highest unemployment rate for recent college graduates in the United States in more than a decade.
"It was extremely dispiriting," said the 25-year-old, who graduated in 2022 with a degree in law and justice from a university in the US capital, Washington. "I was convinced that I was a terrible person, and terrible at working."
