Stop Requiring College Degrees for Jobs That Don’t Need Them
19th March 2023
For liberal politicians like Moore, Shapiro, and Biden, promoting policies to help the more than 70 million American workers who never graduated from college is rooted partly in politics, as Democrats have struggled recently to earn support from non-college-educated voters, especially men. After decades of prioritizing college attendance, the Democratic Party has been scrambling to figure out how to change the widespread perception that its leaders are out of touch with the struggles of average people.
Unfortunately, with the disintegration of the formerly-high-quality public education system in the U.S., business owners have learned (to their sorrow) that the need to insist on a college degree if they want to get employees who have at least what we used to think of as a high-school education. I remember when I was younger and went to some sort of local job fair where one company insisted that applicants had a four-year degree–it didn’t matter what the degree was in, just that you had a four-year degree.