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…Meanwhile, employment prospects for young college graduates have soured along with the economy. The unemployment rate for college graduates aged 20-24 was a challenging 7.6% in the third quarter of 2008, the highest third quarter rate since 2002; by the third quarter of 2009 it had risen to 10.6%, the highest on record… [emphasis mine]
10.6% of us went into, on average, $23,200 worth of debt to step out of academia and fall flat on our faces. This doesn’t even account for the multitudes who find themselves underemployed, to varying degrees of severity.