 and from the sustaining members of this NPR station. This is 1A. I'm Jen White. The price tag of a four-year college tuition is 23 times higher than it was in 1963, according to the Education Data Initiative. And the job market is increasingly unstable for white-collar jobs. But there is growth in the market. It's being led by demand for skilled laborers. So a new batch of workers are going another route, technical school.