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People who have attended college should be more qualified for more jobs than those who haven't. They should be more employed, but they aren't.

In fact they are more employed, according to the article, if they actually graduated (as opposed to merely attending). The article gives, for people 25 and up, the following unemployment rates:

    Overall: 6.6% unemployed
    High school, no college: 7.7% unemployed
    Some college, no degree: 8% unemployed
    2-year college degree: 6.2% unemployed
    4-year college degree: 4% unemployed
So clearly the two "have degree" categories have lower unemployment rates than the no-degree categories do. The article seems to want to conflate people who did and didn't graduate into one "attended college" category.



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