Student loans: a good investment

Conventional wisdom is that college educated Millennials are being crushed by student loans. A burden that will weigh them down economically for a lifetime. Its nonsense. Using data from The Ladders.com, Business Insider demonstrates the value of a four year…

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Relearning the GI Bill lessons

What is so distressing about a recent Center for Michigan's Bridge feature article is that it positions higher education as a combination of vocational training and supplier to Michigan employers. Where the chief  purpose of Michigan's public universities should be…

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Education attainment and employment

The Census Bureau using data from the 2010 Current Population Survey just released what they describe as "the most detailed information on years of school completed ever presented by the Census Bureau". It is worth looking at. Lots of interesting…

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