There's a growing share of college educated people who are downwardly mobile, unable to secure the sort of job that they'd imagine they would be able to. If this whole you should go to college or you must go to college model depends on colleges delivering students future earnings higher than they would otherwise have made as non-college graduates and high enough beyond that to pay off their debts, there is a nascent problem at work.
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.
Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir
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