Straight talk from Mike Rowe as he explains why our country’s focus must be on training our young people for trades rather than pushing them into a college degree they may never be able to use.
— Farm Girl Carrie 👩🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) November 30, 2025
“We’ve got 7.2M men not participating in the workforce, and not looking for work.… pic.twitter.com/nLwkGJBjN8
Straight talk from Mike Rowe as he explains why our country’s focus must be on training our young people for trades rather than pushing them into a college degree they may never be able to use.
“We’ve got 7.2M men not participating in the workforce, and not looking for work.
We have $1.7 T in student loan debt on the books.
We’ve got 7.6M positions that don’t require a 4 yr degree, and yet we keep lending money to kids who are never going to be able to pay it back; to train them for jobs that don’t exist anymore.
If we want to close the skills gap, we need to make a more persuasive case.”
Excellent points. More plumbers and electricians, a lot less psychology and gender-studies majors.