Between the second quarter of last year and the same period this year, the ranks of New York City’s unemployed nearly doubled, from 192,987 jobseekers to 361,390 jobseekers, the city comptroller reports.

But unemployment among people who have a bachelor’s degree or higher has nearly tripled in the same time frame, from 33,285 to 98,103.

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