ASU Career Services could do better to connect low-income and first generation students to jobs. In 2008, I found the office too confident in my education to help me through the economic downturn.
I should feel flattered by their blind confidence, but after years of struggle in low wage no-degree-needed jobs I feel I was dismissed. My professors did well to help me into internships, but now I think I was free labor. It's not what you know but who you know. For low income students stressed with limited support, JOB placement would help.