{"id":883,"date":"2008-05-14T16:56:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=883"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:40:27","slug":"happy-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/14\/happy-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Graduation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kaysteiger.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/graph-of-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kay Steiger<\/a> blogs about the decline in wages since 2001 for college graduates.  Figure A shows that both men and women college graduates are earning less than they did in 2001.   The wage gap between women and men has decreased, but only because men&#8217;s wages have been falling.  To top it off, Figure B shows that a lower percentage of college graduates are getting health insurance and pension coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/class-declining-real-wages-of-college-grads.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/class-declining-percent-of-college-grads-get-benefits1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/class-declining-real-wages-of-college-grads2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/class-declining-real-wages-of-college-grads2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/class-declining-percent-of-college-grads-get-benefits.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/class-declining-percent-of-college-grads-get-benefits2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-888 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/class-declining-percent-of-college-grads-get-benefits2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Might this be related to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/10\/two-excellent-graphs-illustrating-increasing-income-inequality\/\" target=\"_self\">the shrinking middle class<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/05\/wage_gap.php\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Yglesias<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kay Steiger blogs about the decline in wages since 2001 for college graduates. Figure A shows that both men and women college graduates are earning less than they did in 2001. The wage gap between women and men has decreased, but only because men&#8217;s wages have been falling. To top it off, Figure B shows [&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":[29,34,55,2101,2100,252,76],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-education","tag-gender-work","tag-healthmedicine","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29361,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/29361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}