America
Soldier Receives Medals — 67 Years Later S
BY ANDREW HENRY
o sick was army cpl. george hemphill of war after World War II that he returned home to North Carolina and forgot about the Purple Heart he’d mailed home for safekeep- ing. It turns out the medal, which he received after being wounded by a German sniper, was lost by a family member, and it ultimately wound up at an antiques store.
HEMPHILL Now, some 67 years later, the 90-year-old Hemphill is
getting his medal back — plus another one he did not even know he’d earned.
Press. The number of Americans whose
highest academic degree was a bach- elor’s grew 25 percent to 41 million from 2002 to 2012, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The number with an associate
degree rose 31 percent during that period.
Americans with a master’s degree
rose 45 percent, and those with a doc- torate degree rose 43 percent. Labor Department data from 2010
115,000 Janitors Have College Degrees
BY JIM MEYERS N
early half of employed col- lege graduates in the United States
hold down jobs that don’t require a four-year college education — some 323,200 waiters and waitresses, 115,520 janitors and cleaners, and 83,028 bar- tenders have degrees, according to a new report. The nonprofi t Center for College
Aff ordability and Productivity disclos- es that 37 percent of employed col- lege graduates are in jobs requiring no more than a high-school diploma, and 11 percent are in occupations requir-
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ing more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree. About 5 million college graduates
are in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says don’t even require a high-school education. The lead author of the report, Rich-
ard Vedder — an Ohio University economist and founder of the center — said the trend is likely to continue over the next decade. “It’s almost the new normal,” he declared. The problem is an oversupply of college-educated Americans compared to the number of jobs requiring a college degree:
show that there were 41.7 million col- lege graduates in the workforce, while the number of jobs requiring a college degree was just 28.6 million. In 1970, about 10 percent of Ameri-
cans over age 25 had a college degree, while today the percentage has tripled to 30 percent. According to Vedder, the per-
centage with degrees today helps explain why 15 percent of cab driv- ers had a bachelor’s degree in 2010 — compared to 1 percent in 1970 — as did 25 percent of retail sales clerks and 15 percent of fi refi ghters. Ved- der added: “There are going to be a lot of dis- appointed [gradu- ates] because a lot of them are going to end up as janitors.”
Robert Blum of Pensacola, Fla., saw the Purple Heart at the South Carolina antique store and he bought it for $70.
Years later, Blum learned of Purple Hearts Reunited. That’s a nonprofi t organization that reunites medals with the soldiers who’ve earned them. That’s when he knew what he would do — return it to its rightful owner. Hemphill also is receiving a Bronze Star. He
never realized the military had issued it to him. “I’m just fl abbergasted,” Hemphill told The Associated
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