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Your link seems to present the unemployment rate of all college graduates, regardless of graduation year. The article talks about recent graduates, which are no

• roel_v 15y ago
  Well, good news then, here's a paragraph from the article: "The numbers are not encouraging. About 14 percent of those who graduated from college between 2006 and 2010 are looking for full-time jobs, either because they are unemployed or have only part-time jobs, according to a survey of 571 recent college graduates released in May by the Heldrich Center at Rutgers."
  • streptomycin 15y ago
    That number is pretty meaningless without a comparison to what the number used to be.
• bradfa 15y ago
  The link also only counts the population aged 25 years and older. I don't know about most, but I was 21 when I graduated with a bachelor's degree. So if I was unemployed for a few years after graduation, I wouldn't have been counted on that list. There's also a difference between being employed and being employed doing a task you trained for. Flipping burgers for $9/hr means employed, even if you have a college degree that trained you to program computers.