The Homa Files

It isn’t exactly new news that more education makes you more employable.

For folks without a HS diploma:

• The current unemployment rate is 12%
• That’s down 4 percentage points from the 16% recession peak.
• But, it’s still 6 percentage points higher than the 6% low point back to 2000.
• And, 6% isn’t very low.

For folks with a college degree  or higher:

• The current unemployment rate is 4%
• That’s down 1 percentage points from the 5% recession peak.
• But, it’s still 2 percentage points higher than the 2% low point back to 2000.

Hard to argue against the importance of education.

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