May 27, 2005

This Year's Grads Fear Unemployment and Debt More Than Terrorists, Survey Finds

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

Graduating college seniors are more scared of being jobless and debt-ridden than of getting blown up by terrorists.

That was one of the findings of a study, "9/11 and the Class of 2005," reported this month by the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, a Washington-based nonprofit group.

Although more than two-thirds of the approximately 800 students surveyed said they thought it "very or somewhat likely" that a terrorist attack on the scale of those of September 11, 2001,

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