Relying on student subservience in the degree escalation competition game.

I was wondering today how many students were paying attention to the early presidential primary activities.  During Joe Biden ' s kickoff presidential rally in Pittsburgh yesterday he discussed the problems with over-credentialing and how it can serve to restrict competition in the marketplace.Heframed his basic presentation in context of lower wage earners and Union jobs, but does his argument apply to health care other middle income licensed occupations?" They do the same thing with occupational licenses. Why should someone who braids hair have to get 600 hours of training? It makes no sense. It ' s designed to keep the competition down.Look, folks, you can ' t just transfer your licenses across one state to another. They ' re making it harder and harder in a whole range of professions all to keep competition down. "He also talked about reclassification into exempt categories in order to prevent paying overtime.  That made me think of all my colleagues working in long term care facilities and their productivity requirements.Twelve years ago, the occupational therapy profession was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education in an article entitled 'Credential Creep. '  The concern at the time was that credentialism, or the gradual increasing of requirements to enter a profession, was driven by professional associations and often served to cheapen doctoral education in what was referred to as a ' race to the bottom. ' Have these issues ever really been a...
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