

Our first state policy agenda
Our new report, A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: A 21st Century State Policy Agenda, is about state policy. Our motivation in doing
Our new report, A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: A 21st Century State Policy Agenda, is about state policy. Our motivation in doing
This week, Marketplace started a great series on the ways that robots and automation are rapidly changing the jobs that are available to humans. This
Read this and let it sink in for a minute: A man with only a high school diploma is twice as likely to be out
In my last post we looked at evidence that the most prosperous non-energy states were those with the highest college attainment, not the lowest taxes.
Late last year, Stanford economist Raj Chetty and colleagues published an important set of data that measured just how many Americans achieve the American dream.
The Education Trust just published a report that shows the sizable gap between African-American and white completion rates at America’s colleges. Overall, 63.2 percent of
We are constantly barraged with those claiming that low tax states have the best economies. And only slightly less so that getting a four year
It used to be that parents who wanted job security urged kids to get a degree with immediately practical applications—like Eboo Patel’s mother, who wanted
Last week the New York Times published an article investigating the question of whether we’ve hit “peak Millennial”—whether the influx of young adults that has been so
Last week my colleague Kim Trent wrote about the rapidity at which automation is changing the job market and the skills that employers are looking
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