Unemployment Rate for College Grads Significant Lower

Unemployment rates significantly lower for college graduates. (Appleton Post-Crescent, 1/15/2011)

Excerpt: The unemployment rate for high school graduates is 9.8 percent, slightly higher than the 9.4 percent national average.

But the unemployment rate for college graduates is significantly lower, at 4.8 percent, close to normal levels.

Even Americans with an associate's degree have an easier time finding work than high school grads, with an 8.1 percent unemployment rate.