Joel Discusses the Plight of the Millennials with NPR’s Michel Martin
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Tell Me More on NPR
Joel appeared on NPR’s Tell Me More talk about his recent piece, The Screwed Generation.
“In my parents’ generation, the sort of World War II/Depression generation, if you got a college degree you were pretty guaranteed of a decent job because there weren’t that many people with BAs,” he says. “There was a huge growth in the number of jobs that needed these skills, and a relative paucity [of people to fill them]. Now the BA has become a commodity — there are so many of them.
“And then, I think, there are also many young people who have been pushed into four-year schools where they would have been better off with technical training or a two-year degree, or going out and getting a job. And now they’re stuck with debt.”
