Very interesting data on unemployment rates and wages, especially for recent college grads, by college major:

For all the bellyaching about wasted degrees and the many indebted grads stuck on their parents' couches, recent college graduates are still doing a lot better than their less-educated counterparts. Unemployment for new graduates is around 8.9 percent; the rate for workers with only a high school degree is nearly three times as high, at 22.9 percent.

That's according to a new report [PDF] from Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce. The report also had some fascinating statistics on earnings and jobless rates by college major, something we've written about before.

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January 5, 2012, 11:00 am

Want a Job? Go to College, and Don't Major in Architecture

By CATHERINE RAMPELL

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/want-a-job-go-to-college-and-dont-major-in-architecture