Leading the Fight for the Next Generation
Two fights lead this campaign: letting young people keep what they earn, and fixing a college and hiring system that charges them for years they don't need.
Young workers start out behind and get taxed before they ever get ahead.
Why should someone who wants to be a doctor or lawyer spend years and tens of thousands of dollars on general English, math, and humanities first? Much of the world, including the UK, lets students go straight from high school into medicine or law.
We need doctors, lawyers, and engineers. We need these minds. So why are we stopping them? Many of the people who built those fields never held the degrees we now demand: Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer by reading the law on his own, the Wright brothers never earned college degrees, and Frank Lloyd Wright never finished architecture school. Go back further: the Egyptians built the pyramids, the Sumerians invented writing and the math we still use to tell time, and not one of them had a degree. Degrees didn't exist. Talent did.
How can HR call a job entry-level and require five years of experience? A TalentWorks study of 95,000 postings found 61% of full-time entry-level jobs asked for at least 3 years.