People Don't Need Advanced Degrees

Forty-five percent of people who go to college, four year colleges, don't get a bachelors degree within six years. Those people often have met with disappointment and their investment isn't particularly good, necessarily. Another group of people graduate from college and then have trouble getting jobs and end up taking jobs for which a college education is not really a prerequisite. Twelve percent of the male carriers in the United States today have college degrees. And I have nothing against male carriers with college degrees, but I don't think it's an absolute necessity to have a college degree to deliver the mail.

Korva Coleman, Richard Vedder, Boyce Watkins, Is A College Education Worth The Debt? (09/01/2009)

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