For-profit "universities" are a rip-off. They are mostly unaccredited diploma mills that recruit unqualified students by making unrealistic promises that a degree will qualify them for a better job. Often students go deeply in debt to finance that "degree" and then find out it is worthless.

I wonder if Wal-Mart has guaranteed these employees better jobs or higher salaries once they obtain these degrees. I doubt it.

Yeah, I'd say NPR dropped the ball on this one. However, that doesn't prove they aren't liberal; it only shows they incompetently covered this one story. Normally NPR is pretty good.