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MIT: Raising State Minimum Wages, Lowering Community College Enrollment

by RetiredRichard on 7/3/24, 1:00 AM with 33 comments

  • by nequo on 7/3/24, 3:22 AM

    The current title of this submission is

    > MIT: Raising State Minimum Wages, Lowering Community College Enrollment

    The "MIT:" in the title is misleading. This is a published paper in a journal that has little to do with MIT. Neither the three authors of the paper nor most editors of the journal[1] are affiliated with it.

    [1] https://direct.mit.edu/rest/pages/editorial-info

  • by sitkack on 7/3/24, 3:00 AM

  • by dangus on 7/3/24, 2:51 AM

    In some ways community college is in a no man’s land between no experience necessary jobs and better career paths that require similar lengths of training.

    e.g., why study to be a paralegal when it’s a job with possibly worse pay and working conditions than many servers and bartenders enjoy?