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College Degree Premium: Why Higher Ed is Overvalued

More and more Americans are going to college, but that doesn’t mean they’re learning valuable skills or improving the economy.

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Is there really such a thing as a "college premium," the increase in earnings over a lifetime that one can expect to get with a college degree?

A recent report, “The

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