![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1979, male college graduates 25 years of age and older earned 30% more than male high school graduates in the same age bracket. In the United States the payoff from college has soared over the last 30 years. One way of measuring the payoff from college is to compare the extent to which the wages of college-trained workers exceed the wages of high school–trained workers. At the end of the Apprentice series, it was Kendra, the college graduate, to whom Donald Trump shouted, “You’re hired!” As the array of contestants in the series demonstrates, not every college graduate earns more than every high school graduate, but on average, that is certainly the case. The two sides fought valiantly against each other, and the final episode pitted 37 year old, “street smart” Tana, a top-selling sales woman for Mary Kay, against 26 year old, “book smart” Kendra, a real estate agent. Book Smarts, the contestants without college degrees who were chosen for the program were earning three times as much as those with college degrees. On NBC’s 2005 television series, The Apprentice: Street Smarts vs. ![]()
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