The value of a college degree can help in this troubled economy, according to a study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. During the recession, about 200,000 jobs were created for workers with at least a bachelor’s degree, while another two million jobs were added during the recovery. The jobless rate for recent college graduates has dropped to 6.8 percent while recent high school grads with no college face a 24 percent unemployment rate. Read more or listen to the NPR story here.

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