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5. And yet we "reform" education to make more

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2013, 06:15 AM

Jan 2013

because having more training and more degrees will cure the economy. Guess what, it won't. Flooding the economy with degrees and training, something we have apparently already done, has not helped create the jobs that might use all this training.

We are working the wrong end of the equation here.

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Study: Nearly half overqualified for jobs [View all] struggle4progress Jan 2013 OP

Pretty soon they're going to require a baccalaureate to drive those cabs Warpy Jan 2013 #1

I have been over qualified for every job I have ever had... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #2

Thanks to free trade...the job market now heavily favors employers, probably forever davidn3600 Jan 2013 #3

Agreed Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #4

And yet we "reform" education to make more quaker bill Jan 2013 #5

having a degree is sometimes a negative quadrature Jan 2013 #6