"because the demand for cognitive skills associated with higher education, after rising sharply until 2000, has since been in decline." how about.. because th

"because the demand for cognitive skills associated with higher education, after rising sharply until 2000, has since been in decline." how about.. because the quality of a degree has been falling for decades and it is now widely known outside of government and very large corporations that the skills people have are valuable but the skills a college claims a given person has are fairly unlikely to track reality or to be real world valuable. Said the federal land grant college graduate!