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jtuck004

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1. "a dilemma some economists attribute to mismatches" < because "do you want fries with that" or
Fri Sep 11, 2015, 09:02 PM
Sep 2015

"Empty that when they are finished" requires STEM degrees?

Or,

that could be propaganda from the trainers and schools that would profit. If that is true, you might wind up laying a trillion dollars worth of debt on your "prime working age" population and thus immediately transfer that wealth to the 1%. That helps destroy their creativity, any investments they might make, maybe even their spirit. We get, mostly, not much of anything to show for it.

and...

"Those Americans of prime working age (25 to 54 years old) lost 131,000 jobs in July.

Over the previous year (July 2014 — July 2015), those in the age group 55 and older gained 1,554,000 jobs. Youth, 16-18 and 20-24, lost 887,000 and 489,000 jobs."
From http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/real-state-unemployment-5816

If that is accurate, they aren't hiring from among the ranks of those who would be our most recently and presumably best educated? They are trying to sell them on MORE education.


Funny. Previous generations were trained to buy, and we were producing a bunch of stuff, so they bought that. Then they had to be retrained to go into debt. Now they are being trained to get perpetual schooling...yet their future looks like shit.

But only a few, the 1%, could really profit from this, so it's probably not that way.

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