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The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice In Postsecondary Education
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
In partnership with the Postsecondary Value Commission, we conducted a thought experiment on the costs of inequality in the US education system. Our simulation found that the US economy misses out on $956 billion dollars ...
15 Million Infrastructure Jobs: An Economic Shot in the Arm to the COVID-19 Recession
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
A $2 trillion jobs plan (of which $1.5 trillion will go to infrastructure) from the Biden-Harris administration would be good medicine to nurse the economic wounds inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The infrastructure ...
Mission Not Accomplished: Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and Latinx Engineers
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
Engineering occupations are some of the highest-paying and most prestigious in the US labor market, but they are also some of the least diverse. Mission Not Accomplished: Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and ...
The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian Attitudes
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020)
The pressures of global competition, mass migration, and economic instability have produced a backlash in many parts of the world, namely a rise in authoritarian leaders. The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian ...