thepoliticalnotebook:

motherjones:

All that stuff you’ve been hearing about college grads falling behind, and student loans killing the middle class? Yeah, that shit’s for real.

MoJo in making this post was making a point about college grads in general, but I want to take the point to highlight the gender disparity between these charts. It looks, at first glance, like male college grads and female college grads earn the same and have lost the same. However, I’ll point you to the all-important Y-axis of this chart, for the males’ chart the range is 55k to 75k. For the females’ it is 42k to 58k. Women’s highest average earnings during the 99-2010 period were 56k, and men’s lowest were 59k. Fun with charts, y’all.

This literally makes me want to cry.

(via the-acquired-taste)

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