base it on the people u know(college students)

It's more like 80% at my college. It's in a rural area, so there aren't many jobs available. During summer break, I'd say almost everyone gets a job or internship though.

Way too many we need to unite and force the government to do something NOW. Ask the question how many have jobs in their area of study or what they went to school for...now that would be a very low number. My guess 10%.

Well, I'm going to say around 35%. I suppose it depends what kind of college you're looking at (Ivy league--probably not; state school, probably more likely). I think it also depends on the age of the college student. I think students who go to college straight out of high school are probably likely to NOT have jobs the first year or two, or if they do, they work very few hours. I remember in my dorm my first and second years in college, people I knew kind of considered me to work a lot because I worked 25-30 hours a week. Many of them only worked like 10 hours a week or didn't have jobs at all. Of course, you also have the 'non-traditional' students who might be working full-time, raising a family, and going to college too. When I went back for my master's program, 100% of the people in my program were working as well, as the program was designed FOR people working in the field and applying concepts learned and doing action research right on the job. Also, I put my percent rather low, 35%, because many college students at least work during the summer, even if they don't work during the school year. I wasn't sure if you were counting that or not.