College Degrees No Longer Ensure Job Security in Today's Economy

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Economist Brad DeLong argues that recent struggles of college graduates to find jobs are primarily due to economic slowdown and policy uncertainty, not AI or automation, which have been wrongly blamed for the hiring difficulties faced by new entrants to the workforce.
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