Some are waking up to the reality that a poly-sci, English Literature or history degree was not, perhaps, a good investment.

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Roxana Popescu, our other Gen-Y blogger who this year earned her doctoral degree in literature from Harvard is a working journalist.

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She grew up in New Jersey, and was studying languages and literature for a masters degree in Europe when she had a chance meeting with a saxophone player in Oxford, England, that changed her life.

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After the war, he returned to college and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1947 with a degree in English literature.

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She is currently completing a degree in English literature studying, among other books, George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

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After obtaining her undergraduate degree in French and French literature, Oh, 28, worked for German auto company Henkel Korea as an interpreting secretary.

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But he had Dickens as bedtime reading, finished high school and went on to study literature at Swarthmore, where after a couple of suspensions he graduated with the best degree.

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For example, recent college grads with a degree in architecture have a 13.9% unemployment rate, while English literature majors had a 9.2% rate, according to a study conducted by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workplace.

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My take-away from all this literature is that compared to being uninsured, Medicaid likely improves physical and mental health to some degree and may reduce mortality risk (the latter is much less certain).

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