Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

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Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Degrees don't equal skills, I'm sorry. I like to ask unemployed grads what they studied in school, and it's usually something along the lines of art history or Chicano studies. That's great if you want to study that for personal enrichment but to expect to get a viable career out of it is unrealistic in my mind.

Excellent, excellent point.

And THIS, m'friends is where the disconnect is. When colleges went from being institutions of higher learning where you learned a field of study for personal enrichment to being white collar trade schools under the guise of such (with colleges turning into big money businesses), then the market was obviously going to get saturated with a lot of educated but unskilled or limited-skilled individuals, leaving some people to be simply without a career-oriented job, hence at least part of the problem we're having today.