Parents and students who have invested heavily in higher education worry about graduates' job prospects as technological advances and changes in domestic and global markets transform professions in ways that reduce wages and cut jobs.

Government's failure to perform this role in the early 1930s transformed recession into depression.

By the end of the decade, both visions had yielded concrete results and transformed American society

Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a process that has been utterly transformed from the one baby boomers knew.