Using the FRED Economic database (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/) find the median weekly earnings of high school graduates (no college) who are 25 years of age or over. Click Edit Graph then Add Line and add the median weekly earnings of people with a bachelor’s degree or higher who are 25 years of age or older.

a. In the first quarter of 2019, what were the weekly earnings of high school graduates without a college degree? What were the weekly earnings of college graduates?

b. What accounts for the different weekly earnings?