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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.
By Warren Olney • • 32m ListenDemocrats 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.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Christine Detz
Producer, 'To the Point'
Mike Rowe
Discovery Channel's 'Dirty Jobs'
Nic Roman
retrained college graduate
Jeffrey Selingo
Washington Post
The full episode
2 of 3Narrowing the Divide between College and Trade Schools- 1:48Scandal Takes Down Iceland's Prime Minister
- 8:18Do You Really Need College to Get a Job?You’re reading this
- 40:56Are We Getting the Leaders We Deserve?