You Won’t Believe How Many Food Stamp Recipients Have Attended College

If you’ve attended college or received a college degree, you’re facing better-than-average odds of managing to find and hold a job, even in this dismal economy.

So it’s slightly surprising that over a quarter of households receiving food stamps are headed by those who have attended college.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics for December, the unemployment rate for high school grads was 7.1 percent. For those who had some college or an associate’s degree, the unemployment rate was 6.1 percent, while for those who had graduated from college, the unemployment rate was a mere 3.3 percent.
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