[lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt'

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 30 09:01:07 PDT 2007


On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:


> The trend is clear: more and more jobs require
> formal education credentials.

That's not so true. The BLS's jobs projections forecast the greatest need for associate's degree or less, with moderate amounts of on-the- job training. Almost half the new jobs created from 2004-2014 will require only a HS diploma - see table 6 in:

<http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/11/art5full.pdf>



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