A woman with a master’s degree in English finds a job as a salesclerk in a large department store after a six-month search in trying to find a position in her field. She earns 1000 a month. A man with a double B．Ａin philosophy and history accepts a $ 600-a-month position as a beginning file clerk for an insurance company. Thousands of others, college graduates, register for unemployment. College no longer brings the rewards, financial or professional, that it once promised. “Overqualified and underpaid” ，a term once employed to describes the average college graduates in the united states, is currently and frequently applied to their Chinese counterparts，some of whose new name is “ant tribe”. They were taught that knowledge could change their fate, but they find that is not true. If their dreams collapse and if they cannot even find a job, and they cannot find a good explanation for their failure，it could be dangerous for the whole society and they may oppose society，although nobody sees great threat to social stability so far.
“一个英语专业的研究生在自己的专业领域中找了六个月的工作后，最后在一家大型的商场做了一名导购，月薪1000。一名有着哲学和历史双学士学位的本科毕业生在一家保险公司从最底层的业务员做起月薪600。就是这样,也还有很多大学生都还没有就业。大学教育不会再带来曾经人们想象的那种经济和专业的回报了。“资历过高，但薪酬过低”这是曾经用来形容美国的大学毕业生的一个俗语，现在经常用到了中国大学毕业生的身上。中国的毕业生还有了一个新的名字—蚁族。他们从小被教导，知识能改变命运，但现在发现这不是真的。如果他们的梦想崩塌了，如果他们甚至连一份工作都找不到，并且对自己的失败还找不到一个好的解释，这对于社会而言将是十分危险的，他们有可能会站到社会的对立面。虽然到现在为止还没有人认为这会对社会的稳定造成危害。
Meanwhile , that potential threat has not escaped the attention of the government. Government is moving to head off any danger. State Council has issued several notices urging ministerial and regional authorities to put college graduates at the top of their employment agenda.
同时，政府察觉到了这一潜在的威胁并着手消除这样的危险，国务院今年发出了好几次通知敦促中央部委和地方政府把大学生就业放在就业议程的首位。