Your link seems to present the unemployment rate of all college graduates, regardless of graduation year. The article talks about recent graduates, which are not singled out in the referenced statistics, so I think it's not entirely applicable.
I do agree that the some hard data would make a nice addition to the article, though.
Well, good news then, here's a paragraph from the article:
"The numbers are not encouraging. About 14 percent of those who graduated from college between 2006 and 2010 are looking for full-time jobs, either because they are unemployed or have only part-time jobs, according to a survey of 571 recent college graduates released in May by the Heldrich Center at Rutgers."
Re:Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out
by streptomycin on Thursday September 01, 2011 @11:04AM
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That number is pretty meaningless without a comparison to what the number used to be.
The link also only counts the population aged 25 years and older. I don't know about most, but I was 21 when I graduated with a bachelor's degree. So if I was unemployed for a few years after graduation, I wouldn't have been counted on that list.
There's also a difference between being employed and being employed doing a task you trained for. Flipping burgers for $9/hr means employed, even if you have a college degree that trained you to program computers.
The truth is, unemployment among college graduates currently is at 4.3% (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm) which is historically high but not overtly so.