March 30, 2026
A Recent NYT article "Why College Graduates Feel Betrayed" Quoted Jesse Rothstein's paper "Employment Outcomes for College Graduates since the Great Recession" published at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The NYT article commented: "According to a paper by the Berkeley economist Jesse Rothstein, recent graduates started doing significantly worse than older graduates around 2005, then fell much further behind during the Great Recession. The employment rate for recent graduates had yet to fully recover by the Covid-19 pandemic, which upended the job market all over again."
Read the full coverage: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/business/college-graduates-economy-un...