{"id":33129,"date":"2011-05-09T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=33129"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:13:55","slug":"college-graduation-and-unemployment-among-blacks-and-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/09\/college-graduation-and-unemployment-among-blacks-and-whites\/","title":{"rendered":"College Graduation and Unemployment Among Blacks vs Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People with a college degree are less likely to be unemployed than people without one (source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/08\/chart-of-the-day-2.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/24.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But a college degree helps blacks less than it \u00a0helps whites, especially in this recession (source: <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/08\/chart.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33132\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/02\/1.gif\" width=\"381\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also Devah Pager&#8217;s stunning data on race, drug convictions, and employment prospects (in <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/14\/race-criminal-background-and-employment\/\" target=\"_self\">text<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/15\/race-criminal-records-and-getting-a-job\/\" target=\"_self\">video<\/a>). \u00a0(Hint: it&#8217;s better to be a white felon than a black person with no felony record).<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ee;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Via <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/05\/tidbits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thick Culture<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with a college degree are less likely to be unemployed than people without one (source:\u00a0Andrew Sullivan): But a college degree helps blacks less than it \u00a0helps whites, especially in this recession (source: Andrew Sullivan): See also Devah Pager&#8217;s stunning data on race, drug convictions, and employment prospects (in text or video). \u00a0(Hint: it&#8217;s better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,12498,34,285,1760,1757,76],"class_list":["post-33129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-education","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33129"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58879,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129\/revisions\/58879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}