More Educated, Less Unemployed

We can't get you into the original Wall Street Journal article, but we have a link to a blog post about it, and a great graphic image from Calculated Risk.

"College graduates have definitely been hurt by the current recession. Thousands find themselves out of work, and many of those newly unemployed will struggle to find a job that paid as well as their last one. Still, on a relative basis, a college education has never been more valuable."

Read the full article here:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/the-value-of-education-in-a-recession/

The (attached) chart is from Calculated Risk: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/06/unemployment-rate-and-level-of.html