re: how to solve the student loan crisis?

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It will take a generation or two, we should be pushing for more people to go to local colleges. In addition, need to start removing the degree requirement for non-technical jobs and stop using it as a screening tool. You have to go to college to get a job in many cases because most decent jobs require a college degree.

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We could fix some of the issues by actually awarding trade school graduates with an associates degree, or, even include some English, lit and history and maybe some science and award a under graduate degree....kids would be far more interested, given that they are told from birth to go to college, if a trade was equivalent to a degree, which they are in most cases, only not academically. That could be fixed relatively easy. Base state licensing on having said degree. All of a sudden being a plumber, which is a much needed skill and one that is almost impossible to find, much "prettier" to kids and their parents. And, the kid will earn more money in the process. Good deal all the way around.