[reaganaut1]

The title is an exaggeration, of course, since most high-school graduates are not unemployed. But I think it does point to a worrisome trend. As Americans live longer they will need to spend more years working, but I think it would be less painful to have more 18-year-olds in the work force than 70-year-olds.

[downwdims]

We need machinists, nurses, and other skilled/technical disciplines more than college graduates. The workforce is overpopulated with college graduates with little to no skills

[ClearCase_guy]

A direct result of the quality of public education (up through High School) given to us by the Democrats and the teachers unions. Too many kids with HS degrees can't speak their own native language, do simple aruthmetic, or write a check.

But perhaps with additional government intervention, and a sharp infusion of funds, we can make the situation better! [/s]

[downwdims]

USN&R is a College shill magazine. Seriously, I’m trying to figure out why to go back to college (Vet, have access to the new GI bill), and I can’t come up with a reason to do so. I can come up with a list of technical courses and certs that are valuable, but no B.S.’s

[ryan71]

Forget hiring a deadhead socialist college graduate.

Hire a military veteran.

[TSgt]

I’m interviewing 3 candidates today for a position and I trashed any resumes of those who applied for the job that did not have a college degree. It took me 8 years, two jobs and military service to get through college but I finished it. If I can do it then anyone can do it.

That said, not everyone goes to college and we need jobs for people who don’t. The problem is that both ends of the middle class are being eaten away by illegal Hispanic immigrants or H1B visa holders. The rest of the jobs don’t pay a living wage or are being offshored.

At the rate we are going all we will have left is the unqualified or the overqualified...

[Dallas59]

Companies are looking more now than ever for that “magical” employee. One that will somehow turn everything around and work for nothing....IF that company has the guts to hire anyone FULL TIME. No longer do you just walk in and talk to an HR person. A minimum of two interviews conducted by a committee of two or more persons over a period of several days. Even temps go through this.

Companies are afraid to just hire and if it doesn’t work out, fire anyone.

[PapaBear3625]

A big part of it is that employers are not allowed to have prospective employees take tests to measure their literacy and math skills. It used to be that employers could take people just of of high school, test them, and on the basis of such tests decide if they should hire them and where to place them.

Since the 1971 Griggs vs Duke Power Supreme court decision, it is illegal to have such a test if it results in fewer minorities passing than whites.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Here’s a list of people who do/did not have a college degree—good call—keep failures like these from messing up our society:

Abraham Lincoln

George Washington

William Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson

Clarence Darrow

Patrick Henry

Chuck Yeager

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Benjamin Franklin

Rush Limbaugh

Walter Cronkite

Mark Steyn

Wilbur and Orville Wright

G.K.Chesterton

Eric Hoffer

Harry Truman

Billy Wilder

Alfred Hitchcock

Harper Lee

Edith Wharton

John O’Hara

Harold Ross (founder of the New Yorker)

John Cheever

James Thurber

Noel Coward

Dorothy Parker

Bill Gates and Paul Allen (Microsoft)

Larry Ellison

Jane Austen

Thos. J Watson Sr (founder of IBM)

Thomas Edison

Henry Ford, Sr.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

David Geffen

Alex Haley

Walt Disney

Frank Lloyd Wright

Alexander Graham Bell

Michael Dell

Ted Turner

Steven Jobs

Eleanor Roosevelt

John D. Rockefeller

David Sarnoff (founder of NBC)

R. Buckminster Fuller

Steven Spielberg

John Steinbeck

Peter Jennings

Truman Capote

John Mackey (founder of Whole Foods)

[Oldpuppymax]

Ah, yes. The next MSM crusade—free college for everyone! After all, it’s for the “greater good!!”

[Uncle Miltie]

Since High School graduates in most of the country can’t read, a College Degree does help ensure literacy.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Since graduating from college in 1991 with BA psychology, I have obtained these certifications and tools:

1) A+ and several years of experience
2) MCSE certification and experience
3) CDL class A license with over 500,000 miles
4) Forklift certification—amazingly many employers request this if in logistics
5) Several certifications on alcohol serving and culinary arts(I own part of a restaurant/bar)

Education never ends and one should be always updating their skills.

Next—learning Spanish!!

[MuttTheHoople]

Big College strikes again.

[Grampa Dave]

Years ago, my older son came up with the perfect description of most of the worthless college degrees, the instant unemployment degree.

So many of the instant unemployment degrees are in bed with the PC and Diversity forces in our colleges and throughout America.

A week ago Saturday, my wife and I saw a great play, Avenue Q. It is about struggling young people. It starts out with a guy moaning and singing about what was he going to do with his BA in English degree.

Most of these instant unemployment degrees with their connections to PCism and Diversity are worthless for job seekers until they get a PHD in the worthless degree to waste the money and time of more young people in those worthless studies.

[sauropod]

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[TChris]

In many fields, college professors are 2nd generation products of our incestuous education system, where a teacher was taught by a teacher who had never actually been employed in that particular field.

This is one of the major problems with business school, IMO. Many (most?) of those teaching and handing out degrees have never run a successful business.

[monocle]

How much of this is due to the pampering of young adults until they reach 25 years and even then the pampering continues.

[STONEWALLS]

” In many states, 40 percent of high school students entering college need remediation in math, reading, or both,.....”

.....my is a college professor teaching freshman remedial English in writing....only they don’t call it “remedial”....the official title is “developmental English”....don’t want to hurt anybody’s self estem don’cha know.

.....anybody who can teach developmental English(or Math) will have a job for life....these kids can’t write a simple declarative sentence.....downside of the job is that many of them are angry insolent a**holes....just like they were in high school....black kids are the worst...my wife has been threatened and called a “white bitch”

[Walmartian]

I’ve been in the women’s studies program all of my life.

[dragnet2]

As Americans live longer they will need to spend more years working

LOL!

Did you get this information from college?

The reason most private sector Americans will be working longer, into their old age, is not by choice for God sake.

It's because they're pensions have been devastated, they're homes are worth much less, they're dollars are worth less, they're retirement pensions have been all but eliminated or slashed, and now they're told they'll be lucky to even collect Social Security they've paid into all their lives.

In addition, many of these private sector "slaves" will need work into they're old age, just to pay for the lucrative retirement pensions and benefits of the millions of government employees, many of which retire before they turn 50.

[truthandlife]

College, the new indoctrination tool for the Left to make sure every person goes through.

Wonder what they will think up next, maybe a chip under your skin or maybe a number across your forehead.....