That’s the number of Americans age 25 and older in 2012 whose highest level of education was a bachelor’s degree, according to the Census Bureau. That’s about one-fifth of the civilian non-institutionalized population of 204.6 million, Census data show. Women...
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Graduates wearing mortarboards attend Syracuse University's commencement ceremony.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 40.6 Million
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A shopper on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 71
That’s the percentage of Americans with at least a college degree who identify themselves as “upper-middle class” or “middle class,” according to a USA Today/Gallup poll. The 71 percent figure is the smallest that Gallup has measured for that subset...
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A waiter at a restaurant in New York.
Waiters w/ College Degrees: Up 81%
It’s harder to change the world on a diet of canned beans and frozen corn, often the dinner staple for 24-year-old Darien Buckley. She has yet to find a job that utilizes her double major in photography and communications after...
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A customized North Carolina license plate in Greenville on Oct. 27, 2008.
Magic Number of the Day: 6.3
That’s the average percentage-point margin of victory for President Barack Obama in the 2008 election in North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa – three states Obama is visiting this week. Obama won by three-tenths of one percentage point in North Carolina...
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