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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 ...