This one is in the April 16 LA Times. Supposedly, 41 percent of the jobs in California in 2025 will “require” a college degree, but currently only 35 percent of the workforce has a degree, so the state is facing a serious problem.
Too bad the writer didn’t think to ask if there are currently people with college degrees working in jobs that call for no particular academic preparation, and if there aren’t plenty of jobs thay “require” a degree only in the “we just don’t want to bother interviewing high-school grads” sense. The answer to both questions is an emphatic “yes.”