Education To Make a Living and Create a Better Life after COVID-19

The impact that COVID-19 has had on the global economy has translated to a deep anxiety about our future livelihoods. Yet, the impact on individuals has not been equal: The immediate shifts in the hospitality and retail industries, the move to remote work, and the drive by employers to automate processes have impacted low-wage workers far more than higher paid workers. In many ways the pandemic has accelerated a deepening divide along class lines.

The proposed solutions to re-employing those who have lost their jobs often include some form of training or education. Some of the solutions have called for more skills-based training, apprenticeships, and employer-based training solutions. These are certainly valuable and much-needed approaches. At the same time the perceived value of traditional postsecondary education (i.e., the associate or baccalaureate degree) has dropped considerably. This is very much an “either-or” model that has also accelerated as a result of the immediate pandemic crisis.

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