If you want to solve this problem in one step, make it illegal for employers to make decisions based on educational background.<p>Maybe make exceptions for doctors or lawyers, just to keep that from distracting us.<p>People will go to college to learn things, not to credentialize. Right now, we are in the middle of a zero-sum credential race, which hurts the poorest the hardest, and bizarrely the only real discussion of helping the poor is how to force them to do better in the credential race.