Where the Jobs Are

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by John Dearie & Courtney Geduldig

A guide to ending America's jobs emergency by accelerating the true engine of job creation―start-upsFour years after the end of the Great Recession, 23 million Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or have left the workforce discouraged. Even worse, Washington policymakers seem out of ideas.

Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy shows how America can restore its great job-creation machine.

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Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, has launched a movement to convince people to not go to college.3 It’s a waste of money. The return on investment isn’t there anymore. School has gotten too expensive. . . If writing [computer] code is your deal and you’re able to go to a trade school that enables you to write code, that’s far better than a computer science degree from a four-year college or university that looks great on paper, but doesn’t give you the skills you need when you graduate.

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Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, has launched a movement to convince people to not go to college.3 It’s a waste of money. The return on investment isn’t there anymore. School has gotten too expensive. . . If writing [computer] code is your deal and you’re able to go to a trade school that enables you to write code, that’s far better than a computer science degree from a four-year college or university that looks great on paper, but doesn’t give you the skills you need when you graduate.

— John Dearie & Courtney Geduldig, Where the Jobs Are