Uh-oh. Maybe we need to reevaluate the “value-proposition” of what much of “college” has become?
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Mark Minevich
This should alarm every parent , policymaker, university president, and CEO in America.
Young college graduates now have the same unemployment rate as non-graduates.
Incredible to believe:
At the same time:
• OPT keeps expanding
• H-1B keeps importing labor
• Entry-level wages stay flat
• Student debt keeps rising
So what exactly are we telling 22-year-olds?
👉 Spend 4 years
👉 Take on massive debt
👉 Compete for the same jobs
👉 At the same pay
This isn’t a “skills gap.”
This is a systemic policy failure.
We are:
• Flooding the entry-level labor market
• Suppressing wages
• Devaluing degrees
• And quietly breaking the social contract
The result?
A generation that did “everything right” and is now stuck.
If we don’t rethink education, immigration, and workforce policy as one system, the backlash won’t be subtle.
It will be political.
It will be economic.
And it will be ugly.
