"Jobs don't require college degrees. Employers do."
(Also, The Daily Show ran a segment on afterschool š²!)
Happy Sunday, hope everyone is getting some rest this weekend.
Today I published a story on a very important trend in the U.S.: the push to rethink the reflexive reliance on four-year college degrees in job hiring, and the course-correction slowly but surely happening across the economy to change that. There are over 70 million American adult workers without college degrees, making up some 2/3rd of the American workforce, and millions of jobs today list a four-year degree as a requirement to apply, even when most workers who currently have those jobs never graduated from college. It has all sorts of negative consequences, for companies and individuals alike.
I look at how we got to this point, and the major players, research studies, economic forces and political pressures that are leading to new ways of doing business. I learned a lot doing this story and think youāll find it interesting.
Hereās a video from a campaign I reference in the story, a campaign to ātear down the paper ceilingā
In some really awesome news: last week The Daily Show ran a full segment on the importance of afterschool care! I had no idea that was coming, they didnāt contact me before or anything, but they featured my story in the segment. We were very excited to see that, and itās been really cool to see the broader cultural conversation the reporting has helped spark.
Thanks for reading,
Rachel