Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
by janalsncm on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:06PM
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Sure, but that means that students today aren’t getting bachelor’s degrees (the “expensive stuff”) by choice, but by necessity. That’s tens of thousands poorer (and ~4 years older) because of a shifting job market.
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Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
by midoridensha on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:32AM
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Right, but the root of the problem is that secondary education in the US is abysmally bad in many places, so a diploma from a US high school is mostly worthless. Requiring additional catch-up education is just a band-aid, and now with that being watered down, employers will want to see graduate degrees. That's even more money, and more time: employees will be almost 30 by the time they're ready to work.
The solution is to fix secondary education, but there's no political will to do that.