It’s a staple of the Democratic Party in 2019 that we need more college for everyone. Part of the liberal argument for “free” or subsidized college is that education makes us richer.

Many Democrats now even extend this argument to say we as a society would be richer if we taxed ourselves to send everyone to college for free. This position depends upon the idea that college really does make people richer, a phenomenon that has, historically, largely proven true. But it appears that this is changing.