Unemployment Rates Still Favor Degrees

Posted by Carol Coletta on May 10, 2009

Note the latest unemployment figures.  For those with less that high school, unemployment in April was 14.8%. (And those are the people still looking for jobs.)  For those with a high school diploma, the rate is 9.3%.  For those with some college, the rate is 7.4%  And for those with a Bachelor's degree or higher, the rate is 4.4%. 

For those who ask, "Why do we need more people with college degrees?  We don't have the jobs for them," please take note.  Degrees matter.  Everybody has it tough right now, but people without college degrees have it tougher.

That's why, even in a recession, the Talent Dividend matters.