education & pay

[Carrol Cox]

Maybe looking at the following line from your table will help get at
what Michael and Kelly are concerned about:

 1.9     Bachelor's degree                  40,100

O.K. Half of all holders of the Bachelor's degree earn less than 40K.
And that includes many earnaing only 20k to 30k. That's a large number
of college graduates who (unless they are two-income households) are not
making all that much. I don't know how this corresponds to the
expectations of these workers -- and the relationship of expectations to
actuality would, I imagine, have most to do with political implications.

Carrol