… at this point, the first thing I did as governor was sign an executive order doing away with the college degree requirement for over 90% of our state government jobs. That opened up nearly 70,000 jobs to people without a college degree. By the way, two years later, more than 60% of the people we've hired in our commonwealth now don't have a college degree. Why did I do that? (08:31–08:38)
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