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Should Everyone Go To College?
- tokenadult 17y ago"Vedder says that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only five of the 25 fastest-growing occupations over the next decade require any kind of college degree. The rest include jobs like office clerks, home care and health aides, janitors and maids--not exactly the nursing or green technology jobs Obama highlighted in his speech. Vedder says the president is cherry-picking his data."
- pmichaud 17y agoIf your future plans require being credentialed as associating with similarly credentialed people, then you should go to college. "Certified Impressive" I think is the term du jour.
- MikeMacMan 17y agoThe headline is a bit deceptive. Obama isn't stating, or even implying through policy, that 'everyone should go to college.' The policy is promoting enrollment in community colleges, not declaring that it should be mandatory. Personally, I do think that 'office clerks, home care and health aids' should have a couple of years of post high-school education under their belts, if only to learn the things that they should have been taught in high school.