an abundance of college graduates, many burdened with tuition-loan debt, heading into the work world with a degree that doesn’t mean much anymore.
Funny thing about lying.
Sooner or later you are going to get caught in that lie.
Microsoft and others will tell you that we need more software degrees here in America.
So will our colleges and our representatives.
And our media will even chime in saying we need more H-1B’s because we don’t have enough people to fill our jobs.
Yet ole Virgil at Keep America At Work continues to find proof showing that they are lying, like for instance this graph.
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Isn’t it amazing how they will tell somebody like myself or you that has worked in the software business for most of our lives that if we will go back to college and incur another debt that we can’t pay for that we will find work in the software industry?
What Gall!
Click here to read the article I wrote when developing the chart above
For those of you wondering what brought this up, it was this little article in Time that a reader sent to me
Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society — an abundance of college graduates, many burdened with tuition-loan debt, heading into the work world with a degree that doesn’t mean much anymore.
The problem isn’t just a soft job market — it’s an oversupply of graduates. In 1973, a bachelor’s degree was more of a rarity, since just 47% of high school graduates went on to college. By October 2008, that number had risen to nearly 70%. For many Americans today, a trip through college is considered as much of a birthright as a driver’s license.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1946088,00.html#ixzz0ZDT780cL