Underemployment among college grads

News media such as Gizmodo have discussed U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics showing that 17 million Americans hold jobs that don't require college degrees -- leading to sad stories like this one -- and asking questions why. One of those has been MPR's own Paul Tosto, who looked at a case or two in Minnesota

Now PBS News Hour has looked at  underemployment of recent college grads -- which it's calling "malemployment" for some reason -- in two short segments (first the video above and then the one below.)

Click and get depressed.

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