Nearly all post-2008 jobs went to applicants with some college education

Evidence

Since the Great Recession, 95 percent of jobs filled went to applicants with at least some college. The wage premium has risen significantly for a college degree. So I understand the drive of black Americans to pursue higher education. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 344

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader labor-market shift literature; the 95 percent figure is the sort of concrete stat that anchors an argument about why black families rationally chase degrees.