The college campuses served as a launching pad in this era. I m sure we can all argue about what the positive and negative changes were but we d all have to admit that there was a social upheaval. Now the world faces a changing economy. People are told that they can expect to have at least eight different jobs during their lifetime. Skill sets will change every two years.
Businesses are either the gobbler or the gobbleree.
Things won t be slowing down. While this question is difficult to answer, there is now a third generation of McCarthys who are either college age or approaching that age. Clearly it is to try to guarantee at least an access to the middle class. PBS recently did a program on the GI Bill and credited it with helping to create the largest middle class in the world. In 1940 of the nearly 75 million people in America who were over 25, only 3.5 million had attended more than four years of college.