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TalkingDog

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50. The US screwed themselves by pumping up the education bubble

Thu May 31, 2012, 09:29 AM

May 2012

which meant pushing everybody to go into liberal arts education and away from trade schools.

Now we've supposedly got a "tech gap". And a lot of people with educations they can't use and can't pay for.

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