This was a really interesting couple of pieces I came across this morning, especially after writing that piece on all the student loan defaults.
It seems there might be a trend back towards the trades beginning to appear among the Gen Z crowd.
Some of the reasons seem obvious to me – the bloated cost of a college education, for one, and the ubiquitous nature of the sheepskin being required for even entry-level jobs now.
If everyone needs a college degree, doesn’t that necessarily dilute the value of earning one?
…That’s in part because of the cost of getting a bachelor’s degree, they tell CNBC Make It. The annual cost of attending a four-year, in-state public college increased by about 30% between 2011 and 2023, according to Make It calculations based on data from the Education Data Initiative, and went up by 42% at private, nonprofit four-year…
