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Old 10-26-2012, 04:22 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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The percentage of people in the Austin Metro with at least a Bachelor's Degree hit 40.9%, the first time the number has ever been above 40% for the Metro. Austin now ranks 6th out of the 50 largest metro areas in the country. This just proves that Austin will continue to be the South's education epicenter. Go Austin


Austin has highest percentage of college graduates in state - Austin Business Journal
*Note: Within the city-limits, Austin has been well above the 40% mark for many years.
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Old 10-26-2012, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Good news I think. I wonder how many of them are underemployed?
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Old 10-26-2012, 04:40 PM
 
Location: Holly Neighborhood, Austin, Texas
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Good news I think. I wonder how many of them are underemployed?
Don't know about Austin specifically, but if we are anything like the US as a whole the unemployment rate of those with BA/BS degrees will be significantly lower than those with less educational attainment:

Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment

Sorry if I burst your bubble if you were trying to argue this is a bad thing. Actually it may be a bad thing for some. More people with more education and higher salaries will drive up housing costs. (Usually) Can't have you cake and eat it too in a free market.
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Old 10-26-2012, 04:44 PM
 
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Underemployed is different than unemployed...
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Old 10-26-2012, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Yes I do think it is a bad thing for a community to have a large population of underemployed citizens. Which is the case in Austin.
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Old 10-26-2012, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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Yes I do think it is a bad thing for a community to have a large population of underemployed citizens. Which is the case in Austin.
Can you show me the data to back this claim? I'm sure we would all like to see it.
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Old 10-26-2012, 06:55 PM
 
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Now...if they could just give degrees for common sense...
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Old 10-26-2012, 08:26 PM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Now...if they could just give degrees for common sense...
Exactly!
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Old 10-27-2012, 04:02 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Now...if they could just give degrees for common sense...
How true! Being book smart about one or two topics is nice and being around other people who "learned" the same things is great.

Also, I'm in grad school and it's amazing how many people can't spell or write. So having a degree does not mean a whole lot. My friends who are graduate assistants at UT and Texas State say the same thing. Some graduate students try to talk themselves into better grades rather than earning them.

Try to have a conversation about local politics with these educated people. They have no idea of what their local politicians are doing. People will say they don't care which I believe is just a guise for not knowing anything and not having to know anything.
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Old 10-27-2012, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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Well, that's all well & good, but those BA degreed waitpeople still make just as many errors on the bill as the dropouts did.
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