{"id":16093,"date":"2013-03-06T10:35:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=16093"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:35:59","slug":"for-young-people-college-degrees-cut-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/03\/06\/for-young-people-college-degrees-cut-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"For Young People, College Degrees Cut Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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StateImpact<\/em> has reported on Idaho’s high rate of youth unemployment<\/a>. We’ve also pointed out that unemployment rates vary according to workers’ educational backgrounds. So a post<\/a> from Catherine Rampell at The New York Times<\/em>‘ Economix blog that compares the unemployment rates of high-school-educated twenty-somethings to their college-educated peers caught our eye.<\/p>\n

Rampell writes:<\/p>\n

[T]he unemployment rate for people in their 20s with college degrees or more education was 5.7 percent (for those whose highest credential was no more than a bachelor\u2019s, the number was 5.8 percent). For those with only a high school diploma or G.E.D., it was more than twice as high, at 16.2 percent. – The New York Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This finding has particular resonance in Idaho, which has an above average on-time high school graduation rate, but a below average rate of college-educated adults.<\/p>\n

According to the most recent figures<\/a> from the National Center for Education Statistics, Idaho has the 10th highest rate of on-time high school completion in the nation, as well as the country’s second lowest dropout rate. Meanwhile, data<\/a> from the U.S. Census Bureau show that just under a quarter of Idahoans hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. Nationwide, the rate is 27.5 percent.<\/p>\n

It’s one more indication that education is implicit in any discussion of Idaho’s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

StateImpact has reported on Idaho’s high rate of youth unemployment. We’ve also pointed out that unemployment rates vary according to workers’ educational backgrounds. So a post from Catherine Rampell at The New York Times‘ Economix blog that compares the unemployment rates of high-school-educated twenty-somethings to their college-educated peers caught our eye. Rampell writes: [T]he unemployment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":16095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[106,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}