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That was actually my first thought as well, but came to an opposite conclusion: it's even harder now for students because there are no jobs above MW. Today the
by mason240 13y ago
That was actually my first thought as well, but came to an opposite conclusion: it's even harder now for students because there are no jobs above MW.
Today there are MW jobs, and there are middle-class 40/year jobs, but there not much in between. I'm 30 so I don't know for certain about the past, but the only higher than MW job I could find when in school 4 years ago was delivering pizza.
- randomdata 13y ago> there are no jobs above MW. I'm not sure that the math works out. 4% of those with high school educations, but not a degree, work a minimum wage job. That works out to about 8M people. At the same time, there are ~14M people enrolled in college. So even if we assume every single one of those 8M minimum wage jobs are filled by people who are in college, that still leaves 6M people who are either unemployed or making more. And if we make that assumption, that also means everyone who is not enrolled in college and has a high school education is making more than minimum wage.