‎12.8 million people are unemployed, many of them people with economically-useless college degrees . . . Growing government subsidies have encouraged colleges to raise tuition at a rapid rate, and to dumb down their courses to attract marginal students . . . Federal financial aid programs have helped cause skyrocketing tuition increases. Meanwhile, college students learn less and less with each passing year. “Thirty-six percent” of college students learned little in four years of college, and students now spend “50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows.”

What the Washington Post Cited: “Severe Shortage of Skilled Factory Workers As Government Encourages

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The Washington Post cited my blog post, Severe Shortage of Skilled Factory Workers As Government Encourages Students to Pursue White-Collar Jobs, in a