Jan 25, 2013
Education pays...
Main ideas: As education increases, unemployment decreases and wages rise.
Thorns: Unemployment for people without a high school degree is far more than the other groups.
There is an error with the graph, median weekly earnings for each level of education is compared to the average (gray dotted line).
Questions: How much overlap is there between graphs of socioeconomic class and race?
What groups are falling through the gaps, besides uneducated, lower class, minorities?
http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm