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Why more millennials are choosing blue-collar jobs
College Isn't For Everyone, And That's OK
The cost of the average college education has been rising steadily for decades. If you've been out of the loop for a while, you might be surprised to learn that public colleges in the U.S. were tuition-free up until the 1970s, at which point dwindling public funding turned higher education into a for-profit enterprise.
The good news is, even with college costs rising predictably and constantly, millennials are discovering there's nothing wrong with blue-collar jobs. Employment in the trades is booming...