Re:A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe
by randomdata on Saturday December 07, 2013 @08:13PM
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Seeing as how we're talking about a relative increase in difficulty, I'm not sure what we're supposed to take away from a single data point?
You can see here[1] that this decade has brought on a distinct change in unemployment rates for college graduates. The last four years averaged an entire percentage point higher than the highest rate ever seen before. Since we both seem to agree that unemployment rates are a reasonable metric for determining the difficulty of finding work, it seems pretty clear that it is more difficult now as a college graduate than it once was.
You can see here[1] that this decade has brought on a distinct change in unemployment rates for college graduates. The last four years averaged an entire percentage point higher than the highest rate ever seen before. Since we both seem to agree that unemployment rates are a reasonable metric for determining the difficulty of finding work, it seems pretty clear that it is more difficult now as a college graduate than it once was.
[1] http://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/screen-shot-2013-0...