Tagged: college degree

“Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.”

Source: Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424, 433 (1971).

“In 2013, more than half (55.9 percent) of employed black recent college graduates were in jobs that did not require a four-year degree. Not only did young black college graduates have the highest underemployment rate of the groups examined here, they also saw the greatest increase in underemployment during the latest economic downturn. Between 2007 and 2013, the underemployment rate for all recent college graduates increased 3.7 percentage points. Since 2007, the underemployment rate for young black college graduates rose 10.1 percentage points, reaching a high of 55.9 percent in 2013.”

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