Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro eliminated the college degree requirement for 92% of jobs in state government, opening up about 65,000 jobs to non-college graduates. This is a growing trend in today’s labor market, where one in five employers are relaxing educational requirements to attract workers who have historically been shut out. NBC News’ Dasha Burns speaks with Governor Shapiro about the growing trend and the workers now benefitting from it.
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Let's keep dumbing things down. People complaining about college being expensive have never googled "Community College"….seriously.
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Good for people who just don't have the opportunity to go to college, but what about the people that do go to college and get their degree? Some people with college degrees still have trouble getting a job.
ok but the knowledge of the job, you want people to practice on life decision matters? Why dont we do this for doctors and construction workers. This guy is a genius
This seems like a good thing. We need to encourage people who feel disadvantaged to get back into the labor market.
62% of America is dumb.
Education is free in duhmerika.
I've got degrees, just for fun.
While I love learning and studying, and also made the best friends of my life at university, I’m glad I dropped out after one semester and accumulated no debt. It’s sad that’s the reason I left, but that’s capitalism.
Americans are just so undereducated, it's sad.
They should try to lower the cost of education. Also, Republicans made a concerted attempt to remove merit systems for government jobs which means nepotism. Got to be careful with these things
I was a programmer for a full decade before I was even old enough to go try the college scam.
It ended up being a pretty big scam and I'm happy I instead opted for working on crypto.
P.S. Argentina colleges are totally free and offer often better education than their north American counterparts.
Too many got a "Social Arts" degree. 🤣🤣🤣
I joined the Army right after high school. There was no way I was going to be able to afford it on my own and I didn't want to be in debt for the rest of my life to get a piece of paper. What I found after the Army was that the overwhelming majority of people I worked with that had degrees thought they knew a lot more than they actually did. They also treated people who didn't have a degree as if they were less than. I knew from my time in the military that knowing your subject matter and working harder than everyone else was almost, if not as good as that degree that cost $150K. It's nice to see that at least some areas of the job market are relaxing their requirements.
I would prefer government officials to have a degree in government, or federal constitutional history. I think it's VERY important for these folks to understand the laws they are charged to uphold.
Everything else, meh… based on the industry and company needs. I don't need a plumber with a four year degree. But, I don't want a heart surgeon with anything less than 8.
They're doing this because colleges are pumping out coddled, indoctrinated babies that are way more trouble than they're worth.
thank God! Lol I felt left out
Well, considering you can login to the internet to learn your trade and not spend putting you with thousands of dollars in debt with the college racket. ITS A SCAM. College are outdated, a relic of the past. Too much bureaucracy and useless degrees.
College universities are becoming more and more useless, nothing but costly indoctrination camps, so of course it makes sense for low risk jobs to not require a degree
I agree to some extent. There are jobs where a person needs a college degree. What people call a "piece of paper." Yes people put themselves in debt for financial security and to get paid more!!
Jobs that a college degree is needed is nursing, doctor, teachers and social workers just to name a few.
I worked with individuals who didn't have a college degree in social work. The problem was they didn't have social work experience and they didn't have good communication skills which damaged the social worker and client helping relationship.
So yes a "paper" is needed to learn the skills needed to do the job right, my opinion. Do you want a nurse with no degree and experience?
I would still bet you have to have the college degree to progress in the company.
Go to school for 20 years. End up with more debt than a mortgage and no job because nobody wants to pay employees. They just want AI to do all the work while the CEOs and shareholders live it up on their yachts.
I have witnessed in my work place that more High School graduates are more dedicated, hardworking, have more commonsense and apply themselves better on the job that people with a college degree.
I had all the knowledge and skills to do jobs, but I was passed over because i didn't have a college piece of paper that said ''I was a good student'' Not everyone is college material, but still have the intelligence, sometimes more than a book learned person, and capabilities, yet people with lesser work skills are given higher jobs.
This will bring better service and businesses.
For some of us school Just wasn’t an option I wish I could had went but when you’re homeless the first thing on your mind is getting a job and a place
College a scam fr
Who wants a government job anyways?
Or there could be a large amount of universities offering education for free. Thumbs Down to "relaxing" the requirement! 👎
Yet when a company posts a job, I can assure you they will post "preference of a bachelor degree".
A college degree has never, ever guaranteed a good job.
Ever.
I find it weird that the USA tries to lean on education now that we r in the worlds eye when tenure has been the driving force for decades! Just 20 years ago, degree or no degree you didn’t move up unless u had 10plus years at one company! Employers cared about dedication most! Most ppl I know can not afford college and to survive while working full time, and being a parent. College is unrealistic for how america TRULY operates.
Millions of Americans have degrees that are worthless. Pieces of paper that cost a fortune.
College is worthwhile if it’s a good college and the degree is a good degree.
We don’t need any more liberal arts graduates!