[Wyatt's Torch]

Unemployment rates for those with a college degree and those without:

[Right Brother]

That chart doesn't reflect the full story. Many employers have accepted the "college degree" canard and instituted it in their hiring practices. That college degree gets your Starbucks application put at the top of the pile.

A document now trumps actual skills. For instance, many sales jobs now require college degrees. College is not required to sell products. People skills, smarts and personality is what is required. Things that certainly are not taught at a university. Yet someone possessing those skills is rejected because they don't have that participation trophy called a degree.