“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.” - Rick Santorum, in Troy, MI Saturday (h/t washingtonpoststyle)
Above, unemployment rates from the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report.
The Wall Street Journal elaborates:
Some 1.8 million more college graduates have found work since January 2010, when the recovery began producing jobs, but about 128,000 high-school dropouts lost work in the same period, according to the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Less than 40% of the 25 million Americans over age 25 who lack a high-school diploma are employed. And those who are working don’t earn much. High-school dropouts earn about $23,400 on average, compared with $33,500 for those with a college degree.
The only snob here is the one who is too demagogic (pardon the Newtism) to acknowledge the positive effects of a college education.
