"A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck," The Wall Street Journal reports. "In the economic expansion that began in 2001 and now appears to be ending, the inflation-adjusted wages of the majority of U.S. workers didn't grow, even among those who went to college. The government's statistical snapshots show the typical weekly salary of a worker with a bachelor's degree, adjusted for inflation, didn't rise last year from 2006 and was 1.7 percent below the 2001 level. College-educated workers are more plentiful, more commoditized and more subject to the downsizings that used to affect primarily blue-collar workers. What employers want from workers nowadays is more narrow, more abstract and less easily learned in college."