MIT: Raising State Minimum Wages, Lowering Community College Enrollment

[nequo]

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

[sitkack]

https://web.archive.org/web/20230811042051/https://www.nber....

[dangus]

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?

[yareally]

Not everyone is going to a community college for just a 2 year degree. Many use it as a flexible, affordable solution for taking prerequisite courses required for a 4 year degree.

[bsder]

> 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?

Because a paralegal gets to work roughly 9-to-5, gets to sit on their ass instead of standing on their feet for 8+ hours, and probably only has to deal with the occasional coked up lawyer rather than drunk assholes every night?

If you're a young, pretty female, you can probably make good money in one of those service jobs. If you're not young, not pretty, or not female, then you're probably WAY better off as a paralegal.

[RetiredRichard]

I mean we kinda expect community colleges to pick up those who are left behind and willing to learn