Fivethirtyeight breaks down the current unemployment numbers and finds that those without a high school diploma have probably had their jobs shed as part of the current recession. The unemployment rates for different educational groups are:

Less than high school diploma: 15.2%
High School Graduates, no college: 10.1%
Some college or associate degree: 8.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 4.9%

The recent interactive New York Times flash app showed a similar story with white women that had four year degrees having the lowest unemployment rate. It continues:

Either the economy needs to start creating jobs for those with less than a college education or the workforce needs to increase the number of people with higher education.

Most tasks that can be done twice with minimum variations between in put and output are now automated. The digitization of nearly every industry courtesy of the cheap microchip and relatively cheap software and hardware has meant most industries - and especially manufacturing - have seen massive productivity improvements through automation at the expense of employment for those without degree's.

One of the ways for dealing with it is to speed up education for children so that when they leave high school they have a two year degree. Basically before they become nineteen they are already degree educated and ready to either go to university for post-graduate studies or are ready to enter the workforce with a more specialized education. (more)

Many pixels have been spilled on the cartoons of Mohammad and the vandalisation of embassies in the Middle East. Everyone has an opinion on it of one form or another. The opinions have been predicated in freedom of speech, clash of civilisations, multi-culturalism and the civility not to offend. I haven't seen anyone raise the issue of youth yet. (more)