Employment Incentive?

[Shylock1079]

I am fully aware that this might not belong on the "general" content topic of discussion, and if this post offends the rules set forth by the moderator, I apologize.  I recently relocated to Tulsa, the land of my wife's family to peruse my career since we both just graduated college.  She has easily had her pickings from a variety of jobs in this town....but unfortunately for nearly three months, and 231 applications and resume's later, I still have yet to find anyone that will take me.

I have been to a variety of interviews each of which I have been passed over by someone with more experience, but no education.  I understand the importance of work history, which I do have, but more and more frequently I have discovering that it doesn't seem to be a very major priority.  

In my field (Communications-Broadcasting, Journalism, Marketing), it seems education would have some importance...but it hasn't.. in fact they have rarely checked my schools.  What am I doing wrong?  I have always managed to find jobs before in other towns, but here, I feel like I am approaching this horribly wrong and will find myself working at the same $8 an hour I earned before I had a degree.  So to my question... shouldn't there be a sort of statewide incentive to hire college graduates from your state..or college graduates at all?  

I am Native American, so I felt that with EEO I would be a more viable candidate, yet I'm discovering that I'm being invited in only to fill requirements..in fact..in one case the job had already been filled prior to my interview!!!  Please..anyone..is there some translucent rule that I have missed at some point in Tulsa?