Despite the rising cost of getting a college degree these days, more and more Americans are earning one. According to the Pew Research Center, a third of all U.S. residents between the ages of 25 and 29 have earned a bachelor’s degree. In 1971, 20 percent of Americans in the same age bracket could say the same thing. Nearly two-thirds of 25- to 29-year-olds have done at least some work in college, up from 34 percent in 1971. (New York Times)