Star Tribune: Minnesotans are on the job, but overqualified for what's available
Apr
04
2014
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Star Tribune: Minnesotans are on the job, but overqualified for what's available
One statistic has been House Republican Minority Leader Kurt Daudt’s mantra this session: 49 percent of this state’s working adults are underemployed — that is, working at jobs for which they are overqualified, and presumably earning smaller paychecks than they once expected.
Can that be? Nearly half of this state’s employed people are educationally prepared for better jobs than they’ve got — even with the state’s unemployment rate down to a nearly recovered 4.8 percent?