In the 1920s, the American economy was growing with no sign of stopping. Nicknamed the “Roaring '20s,” this era brought happy times for almost everyone except farmers. Farmers purchased expensive new farm equipment with the hope of large profits, but their increased efficiency saturated the market. Their agricultural production increased too rapidly, and to support themselves, farmers feverishly began planting as many crops as possible to offset the falling prices. This excessive farming has ruined the soil of his herbs. With no roots to hold the topsoil, the prevailing winds of the 1930s swept the soil across the Midwest and destroyed any possibility of for-profit farming. After all, the need to pay off the debt acquired while purchasing that expensive new farm equipment has forced farmers to move away and find work in the city. This event was known as the Dust Bowl. In the 2010s, America faces a similar threat. Teens attend expensive colleges with hopes of big bucks, but the abundance of college graduates is saturating the market. This lack of good jobs leads to over-qualified people being underemployed. Non-graduates in this situation cannot find decent work and believe that the only way to find work is to go to university, which leads to even more graduates. After all, the need to repay debt acquired by attending expensive colleges forces graduates to scrape together cash in sub-par jobs. I'd call it the College Bowl, but that would sound a little too much like some sort of football event. Perhaps the Graduate Bowl would be a better substitute for the Dust Bowl, since being a graduate these days just seems to be dust in the wind. Education is no longer the way to get… middle of the paper… it seems impossible to force people to avoid college, it is better to simply accept that the value of a degree is decreasing and keep decreasing. Then, once almost all of America has a bachelor's degree, the next hot thing will be to get a master's degree, or maybe even a doctorate. It will be a dark day for America when that man testing your milk at the grocery store is a doctor. Maybe the solution is to make it harder to get a college degree. Should everyone really be able to earn a college degree? Works Cited McGuinness, William. “Half of New Graduates Work in Jobs That Don't Require a College Degree: Report.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, January 29, 2013. Web. November 5, 2013. Weissmann, Jordan. "The Atlantic." The Atlantic. Np, 23 April 2012. Web. 01 November 2013. De Vise, Daniel. "Instruction." Washington Post. Np, 13 September 2011. Web. 07 November. 2013.