Should So Many Jobs Really Require a College Degree?

A new proposal from a Republican candidate for Congress raises an important question.

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More Americans are going to college than ever before. At the very same time, education has become one of the biggest cleavages in society. Increasingly, voting is polarized not by income but by educational attainment. As the economist Thomas Piketty has shown, in the United States and a few oth…