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The Summer Surge in College Unemployment: Why It Happens and What You can Do About It
(2013-08)
The Summer Surge In College Unemployment shows a rise in unemployment that frightens college graduates as they venture into the job market. This rise in unemployment, however, is cyclical and predictable. The study analyses ...
Nursing: Supply and Demand Through 2020
(2015-02)
Nursing: Supply and Demand through 2020 analyzes the growing need for qualified nurses. The study projects that the economy will create 1.6 million job openings for nurses through 2020. Yet, there will not be enough nurses ...
College Is Just The Beginning: Employes' Role in the $1.1 Trillion Postsecondary Education and Training System
(2015-02)
College Is Just the Beginning: Employer’s Role in the $1.1 Trillion Postsecondary Education and Training System analyzes how much employers spend on training, what they spend their training dollars on, and how spending on ...
Nursing: Can It Remain a Source of Upward Mobility Amidst Healthcare Turmoil
(2017-08)
With the healthcare system at the center of a contentious and long-running political debate, the prospects for nurses are important. Healthcare makes up more than one-sixth of the US economy and nursing is central as the ...
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 ...
If Not Now, When? The Urgent Need for an All-One-System Approach to Youth Policy
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2021)
If Not Now, When? The Urgent Need for an All-One-System Approach to Youth Policy makes the case that the United States’ disjointed approach to youth policy has failed young people. In the current fragmented system, pre-K–12, ...
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 ...
The Dollars and Sense of Free College
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020)
The Dollars and Sense of Free College measures the costs of three major free-college models as well as the cost of a plan put forth by 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which shows the likely costs in the ...
Buyer Beware
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020)
Did you know that in the first year after graduation you can make more money with an associate’s degree in nursing from Santa Rosa Junior College in California than with a graduate degree from some programs at Harvard ...