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There’s some truth to the jokes about English majors working as Starbucks baristas. Mounting evidence shows that a large minority of college graduates are underemployed, meaning they work in jobs that ...

Underemployment is the under-use of a worker due to a job that does not fully use the worker’s skills or time. Examples of underemployment would be an individual with a PhD in mathematics working at a ...

The May jobs report was shocking. Contrary to what the majority of economists expected, the Labor Department's monthly report showed that employers actually added 2.5 million jobs last month and the ...

“About half of America’s new college graduates are working in high school-level jobs like food service and retail,” according to a recent report in Business Insider. That’s certainly not what students ...

Unfortunately, as illustrated by the following statistics, far too many college graduates are not getting what they expect from a college degree: • According to Gallup’s 2017 State of the American ...

Underemployment in the U.S. is worse than the most commonly cited figures suggest, a new analysis published by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors concludes. Researchers at the central bank ...

Underemployment in its most insidious form -- a dearth of meaningful career challenges -- is a long-standing problem for millions of American workers. And in the 2000s, with job losses prevalent and ...

The growing college admissions scandal has raised serious questions about fairness and privilege on the front-end of higher education in America. With graduation season upon us, we ought to take a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Adriernest Gonzalez, a trained attorney of nearly two decades, fled Venezuela amid political unrest in 2018. The devoted lawyer anticipated her journey moving to the United States one ...

The personal financial satisfaction of Americans continued its drop in the second quarter of 2020 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the AICPA’s latest Personal Financial Satisfaction ...