Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by fluidcruft on Friday August 17, 2012 @09:37AM
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College-educated people being hired for jobs that high-school educated people used to do is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem is that those jobs are disappearing. That was the major point of the research article that this is report is based on. So, it's all fine and dandy for college-educated people to whine that they're only able to find jobs for which they are over-qualified, but high-school educated people face both increased competition from college-educated people and fewer opportunities (even if college-educated people were not encroaching) and can't find jobs at all.
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Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree
by randomdata on Friday August 17, 2012 @11:31AM
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Keep in mind that 70,000,000 high school graduates in the USA are employed, while only 35,000,000 college gradates are employed. High school educated people have a long way to go before they are completely marginalized by college graduates. You make it sound like there are just a handful of high school educated people hanging on to the last jobs by the skin of their teeth, which couldn't be further from the truth.
I feel it is also important to note that the college educated gains made in this study were by people aged 25 or above. Those below that age are actually more employed with just a high school education for the first time. We can surmise from that data that experience is what has become important in the recession, which is also backed by my anecdotal experience. It is just that a degree actually did matter a decade ago, which left those without a degree lacking in the necessary experience today.