Economists Say Millennials Should Consider Careers In Trades - NPR
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/02/383335110/economists-say-millennials-should-consider-careers-in-trades
Key points:
-You can actually make more than the average college graduate with less education by working in a trade field.
-"Averages lie" when it comes to incomes for people without college degrees: low-skill workers ex. McDonald's staff get lumped in with high-skill trade jobs like "master carpenters and technicians" and bring down the average.
-"We made a mistake in the 1980s. We basically obliterated the modernization of the old vocational education programs and they've been set aside."
-"The country is going to need a lot more skilled tradespeople"--precisely because training has been so lacking and also because most trades cannot be outsourced, the repairs or installations etc. must be done on site.
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