There's tons of data published all the time by various sources that are easily searchable. If you don't trust those, that's fine, but I think it's pretty reliab

There's tons of data published all the time by various sources that are easily searchable. If you don't trust those, that's fine, but I think it's pretty reliable. It sounds like the disconnect here is that low unemployment (around 2-2.5% last I checked) might be disproportionate in the demographics that it consists of - new grads, etc. So to them the market may look really bad but as a whole there are empirically a ton of jobs.