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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

Meetings, not so much. So many meetings.”. One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. Coding he liked.

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