Jordan Weissmann has an interesting collection of graphs in The Atlantic on the financial, educational, and social status of 27 year olds today. It comes from a data set of about 15,000 young adults who were high school sophomores in 2002 and have been tracked as part of a longitudinal study.
Of those who expected to earn a bachelor’s degree, only about 1 in 3 (34 percent) actually did.
In 2011, only about 1 in 5 earned over $40,000. About twice that many earned $25,000 or less.
See the other graphs.
HT: Anya Kamenetz