Study: Nearly half are overqualified for their jobs

USA TODAY:  Nearly half of working Americans with college degrees are in jobs for which they’re overqualified, a new study out Monday suggests…

“It is almost the new normal,” says lead author Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economist and founder of the center, based in Washington… 

Earnings in 2011 averaged $59,415 for people with any earnings ages 25 and older whose highest degree was a bachelor’s degree, and $32,493 for people with a high school diploma but no college, the Census data show…    (more)

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