One of the administration’s chants is that America needs more college educated workers to meet the demands of the increasingly technology driven service economy. This flies in the face of the facts that according to The Chronicle of Higher Education there are “some 17 million Americans with college degrees who are doing menial jobs.” Here some of the current job assignments for the underemployed workers with Bachelors and Professional degrees.
The article there concludes:
“The relentless claims of the Obama administration and others that having more college graduates is necessary for continued economic leadership is incompatible with this view. Putting issues of student abilities aside, the growing disconnect between labor market realities and the propaganda of higher-education apologists is causing more and more people to graduate and take menial jobs or no job at all. This is even true at the doctoral and professional level—there are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s, other doctorates, or professional degrees.”
Some might argue that many of the underemployed got the wrong degree for the economy.This is somewhat true, although the economy changes direction and the “hot fields” with the speed that often exceeds the time required to complete an education.
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http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/
and while you’re at it,
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/