But in the current economy, many college graduates are finding themselves unemployed or underemployed.
China has done the easy part: attracting underemployed young rural residents to urban jobs.
We face the risk of taking our most promising entrepreneurs and turning them into underemployed wage-earners.
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Many who are underemployed and struggling to cope are subsidizing the grander schemes of economic recovery.
But for the legions of still-unemployed and underemployed workers, the news is less promising.
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Some of those underemployed residents are finding an outlet through the Kibera Film School.
That includes an army of the unemployed or underemployed of over 26 million Americans.
Studies show that about 70 percent of people who are blind are unemployed or underemployed.
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However, Margaret Lynch, chief executive of Citizens Advice Scotland, said too many graduates were underemployed.
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Of course the funds needed to support the unemployed and underemployed will have to be provided.
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Some 300, 000 underemployed immigrants could then return to the professions for which they were trained.
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The rough total number of unemployed or underemployed people right now is 23.1 million.
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McAdams -- the underemployed star from "The Notebook" and "Red Eye" -- pops off the screen here.
Those left unemployed or underemployed are struggling to retrain and catch up with the new economy's needs.
Living in Los Angeles, one's temporary companions are likely to be other underemployed creative types like myself.
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On top of that over 100m rural Chinese are underemployed on farms or seeking work in towns.
And have caused those who are out of work and underemployed to pay more for what they consume.
Underemployed and barely attending community college, they funded their hobby by selling T-shirts to their small fan base.
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Americans continue to face grim economic prospects, an unemployed or underemployed future, and a shrinking middle class.
Finally, this indirectly contributes to unemployed and underemployed people dropping consumption, and Main Street businesses lack of demand.
Lots of underemployed young people mean too many hotheads and not enough elders.
But this malinvestment cannot explain why 21.8m Americans remain unemployed or underemployed five years after the housing boom peaked.
This would add up to an unemployed and underemployed rate of close to 17%, 2.5 years after the recession started.
Though the national unemployment rate recently dropped, many are still looking for work, or trying to get by while underemployed.
All in all, that rate for October was 14.6% and equates to 46 million Americans dealing with being unemployed or underemployed.
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Patricia Mannie, a longtime resident who considers herself "underemployed, " says that she has become increasingly disappointed with the reversal of fortune.
All this involved cutting the number of fire officers, who, Mr McGuirk realised, were underemployed for long periods during their shifts.
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Young people have been hit especially hard during the recession, with more than half of recent college graduates unemployed or underemployed.
And yes, as you add in discouraged, marginally attached and underemployed, the unemployment rates rise (like the oft-cited U-5 and U-6 rates).
The army of the unemployed and underemployed consequently totals nearly 26 million.
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