Forget Unemployment, Time to Worry About 'Mal-Employment'

English majors of the world beware — your degree may not be worth the money you put into it, unless you go on to get a graduate qualification. I’ve been spending a lot of time recently thinking about education and the skills gap in the U.S. Some academics, like Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter, think the mismatch between the skills that are needed in today’s workforce and the skills kids graduate with is responsible for as much as a third of the growth in unemployment since the Great Recession. There’s also a vigorous debate going on about whether we should be pushing liberal-arts degrees in a world in which the majority of new jobs are going to require science, technology and math skills.