retrained college graduate
College graduate who retrained to be a welder and now works at ASC Process Systems
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Nic Roman
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FROM Nic Roman
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Do You Really Need College to Get a Job? Democrats have made higher education central to this year's presidential campaign. With costs sky-rocketing, graduates are collectively $1.3 billion in debt. So Hillary Clinton wants to make college more affordable, and Bernie Sanders is demanding that it should be free. But Marco Rubio has a point: potential workers don't have the training for high-skilled jobs being created by new technology, while more and more college graduates are both underemployed and deeply in debt. We get a reality check on education and America's manufacturing economy. We want to hear from you. Are you concerned about jobs going overseas? Please let us know sharing your insights here .
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