Taken as a whole, these trends provide evidence that the job
prospects for recent college graduates have indeed worsened,
even though the high rate of underemployment over the past
few years is comparable to the level seen in the early 1990s.
Among those recent college graduates who are underemployed,
more are working part-time or in low-wage jobs since
2000, while fewer are working in good non-college jobs. This
downward trend in the quality of jobs for underemployed
recent college graduates compounds the increase in the level of
the group’s underemployment over the past decade