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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Coding he liked. Meetings, not so much.

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