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Originally posted by mi3ch at немного истории

I found this bit especially interesting:

"Underemployment — the barista problem — is also overstated. When researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York looked at that issue, they found that the share of recent college graduates in low-wage jobs rose from 15 percent in 1990 to 20 percent in 2012, the latest year in the report — hardly an epidemic.

They also found that over the years, about one-third of recent graduates have always worked jobs that don’t require college degrees but pay decent wages nonetheless — and that has been as true for science and business majors as for those with degrees in humanities and social sciences.

Even in good times, it’s quite typical for recent college grads to take several years to find jobs that make use of their education."
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Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature: Forcing college kids to ignore the liberal arts won't help them in a competitive economy., from The Washington Post