In this article, the author discusses the "high-skills hoax"--the notion that everyone must have high skills to be employable. While he recognizes the civil rights issue in the debate--everyone should have the opportunity to develop the skills to land a high-paying job--the law of supply and demand dictates that more high-skilled workers would result in lower wages and higher unemployment for all. He also maintains that most new jobs are in the low-paying service sector, and that producing many more college graduates would make many people overqualified for the available work. Instead, he says, the reason that young workers cannot find work is precisely because they are young and are not perceived as having the basic skills or work attitudes necessary to succeed. In surveys, strong academic performance came relatively low on the list of most desirable traits in a worker, demonstrating that test scores and other indicators are not necessarily a good measure of an individual's employability.