Scanning the headlines, it would be easy to believe that a college degree is becoming increasingly irrelevant in a fast-evolving job market.
Fourteen states, including 10 in the past year alone, have dropped degree requirements for many state jobs.
All this comes as college enrollment has dropped, with an assist from a tight job market and worries about student debt.
Nonetheless, a look at the data suggests the skills-based hiring movement may actually amount to little more than populist virtue signaling.
The evidence so far suggests that the movement may do little to expand economic opportunity.
Organizations:
IBM, Accenture