The problem with Amazon’s ‘free college’ benefit

Photo caption: Education experts told Protocol that programs like Amazon’s Career Choice benefit have limited value in helping people actually earn degrees they can use. Photo credit: Soeren Stache / picture alliance via Getty Images. Article by Anna Kramer. Protocol – September 20, 2021.

Last week, splashy headlines about a new and expanded “free college” benefit for all of Amazon’s blue-collar workers made the country’s second-largest private employer look like it had fixed the problems with higher education in one fell swoop. Two months ago, the same headlines had about the same energy for Walmart, the only company that employs more people in the United States than Amazon. […]

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