College: important, but not magic bullet

Some form of post-secondary education or training does seem to have become, as one recent report put it, “the onlypathway” to a middle-class job. But if education has become a necessary prerequisite for economic success in modern-day America, it is hardly sufficient. 


And, a number of economists and other policy thinkers worry, by placing such an emphasis on the virtues of higher education, our policy elite is foreclosing discussion of alternative or complementary strategies that could deliver gains to many Americans — those with and without college degrees alike.


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