Fries with that BA? The declining value of a degree

By Margaret Wente. The real story among today’s twentysomethings isn’t unemployment. It’s underemployment. An amazing number of university-educated offspring of the upper middle class are working as caterers, concierges and fitness instructors until something better comes along.Linda is one of them. She has a BA in English and women’s studies – in retrospect, perhaps not the wisest choice of major, but when she started university a decade ago, no one knew that yet. After graduation, she travelled and taught English in Asia for a couple of years. Today, at 29, she’s working at a fitness club in Toronto and living in her parents’ basement. Read more...