A recent report shows that over half of college recent college graduates are working in jobs where they don’t use their degrees. As if that weren’t bad enough, such “underemployed” college graduates ...

For more than a generation, a bachelor's diploma functioned as the default ticket into the middle class. That bargain is breaking down. Employers are rewriting job descriptions, graduates are ...

The idea that a college degree levels the playing field for students of different socioeconomic classes has been bolstered in recent years. Research from 2011 and 2017, for example, found that earning ...

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More than half of recent four-year college graduates, 52 percent, are underemployed a year after they graduate, according to a new report from Strada Institute for the Future of Work and the Burning ...

For decades, a four-year college degree has been viewed as the golden ticket to economic prosperity, with study after study documenting that college graduates enjoy better employment prospects, earn ...

A new update from the Lumina Foundation finds that the percentage of working age adults who’ve earned a college degree or other postsecondary credential reached 54.9% in 2023, the most recent year for ...

For a half century, the most recession-proof story in mainstream journalism has been declaring that college degrees aren’t recession-proof. Every economic downturn produces headlines warning that ...

As a recent Inc. article noted, a rising number of college graduates have doubts about the “wage premium” their diplomas were expected to provide by commanding better than average starting ...

As analysts began digging into Donald J. Trump’s dominant victory this week, a key theme from the past two presidential elections emerged yet again: College-educated voters are on an island. Exit ...

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