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The Annual Labor-Shortage Hoax

All too often, students learn the hard way that education, like the stock market, is built on speculation

When someone tells you there is going to be a labor shortage in the field in which they teach, run, don't walk, in the other direction.

In The Grapes of Wrath there is a moment when you realize...

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