English degree doesn't equal "English jobs." It just means good communication skills, which is more valuable today than any particular skillset.
Very few English majors today graduate with critical thinking skills worthy of the name. Most are only able to regurgitate the Leftist/Marxist/Feminist party line.
Communications skills without critical thinking skills are worthless. For a communications-intensive position, I'd rather develop a C-student engineering or accounting or finance major, with good Verbal SAT scores, than try to teach critical thinking to an English major.