Does a College Education Pay Off?

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It feels like more than ever, our world requires a college degree.

Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce predicted eight years ago that by 2020, 65% of the nation’s jobs would require postsecondary education.

In 2018, 70% of workers were in those jobs, meaning that we have become even more educated than economists previously thought we…