Credentialism & Degree Inflation2024
52% of US jobs are middle-skill, but only 44% of workforce trained to fill them (NSC 2024)
National Skills Coalition (2024): 52% of US jobs are middle-skill positions requiring more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year degree; only 44% of the US workforce is trained at that level, creating a persistent 8-percentage-point supply-demand gap.
Primary source
National Skills Coalition 2024 Middle Skills Gap Analysis
https://nationalskillscoalition.org/resources/publications/Published 2024 — compiled by JobCannon Research.
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