Over the arc of a career, humanities and social science graduates earn as much or more than those in professional fields, new study shows, and are equally employed. Liberal arts majors may start off slower than others when it comes to the postgraduate career path, but they close much of the salary and unemployment gap over time, a new report shows. By their mids, liberal arts majors with an advanced or undergraduate degree are on average making more money those who studied in professional and pre-professional fields, and are employed at similar rates. Humphreys and her co-author, Patrick Kelly, a senior associate at NCHEMS, looked at long-term career path and salary data as an answer to the many short-term studies on recent graduates that have fueled the assertion that liberal arts graduates are disproportionately un- or underemployed. And while 5. Though they come close, liberal arts graduates never quite close the unemployment gap between themselves and professional or pre-profession...