Restructuring Education: Debt, Degrees & Future of U.S. Workforce

• The recent press release from the US Dept of Ed on ‘myths’ about professional degrees:
  https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/myth-vs-fact-definition-of-professional-degrees
  **ALSO see resource #5**

• Walberg’s recent interview on the ‘right sizing’ the US Dept of Education:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og07qxR6DAM (start at the beginning. it’s about 6 minutes)

• About that ‘right sizing’: it’s a shell game, as I predicted, warned and have raised the roof about!!
  https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-six-new-agency-partnerships-break-federal-bureaucracy
• While there’s an image circulating that Trump 2.0’s administration has signed an Executive Order ‘reclassifying’ nursing as unprofessional, from what I can find that’s a false and misleading image.
• Here’s where some may have based that lie on:
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nursing-professional-degree-excluded-list/
• Here’s more from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that will impact student debt/loans and impact degrees:
  https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/big-updates
• In plain English the number of professions that will fall under the OBBBA’s/US Dept of Edu.
• Trump 2.0’s EO on “Genesis Mission” has much BS & HH:

1. a) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/
2. b) https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-unveils-the-genesis-missionto-accelerate-ai-for-scientific-discovery/(not the impact on education/work)

• Expect data center growth to go off the charts, as well as other dangers to our ecosystems:
  https://uidp.org/3-minute-read-the-genesis-mission-a-new-federal-framework-for-ai-enabled-research-collaboration/

For the archives:

• All my articles/videos on ‘workforce widgets’:
  https://www.commoncorediva.com/?s=Workforce+widgets
• Genesis Mission from the US Dept of Energy’s perspective shows a global aspect:
  https://genesis.energy.gov/
• New ways to track us all via the “Genesis Mission”:
  https://www.ans.org/news/article-7583/white-house-to-consolidate-data-and-research-under-aidriven-genesis-mission/