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Graph showing unemployment rates for recent college grads, all young workers, all college grads, and all workers since 1990. The lines generally move up and down in tandem, but recent college grads consistently had lower unemployment than all workers until about 2018 or 2019.

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Graph showing unemployment rates for recent college grads, all young workers, all college grads, and all workers since 1990. The lines generally move up and down in tandem, but recent college grads consistently had lower unemployment than all workers until about 2018 or 2019.
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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 11:43:31 JST Paul Cantrell
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@leon_p_smith That may be true in some ways, but the graph in the Krugman article suggests this is a “since 2018-2020ish” thing and not a “last 25-30 years” thing:

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