MoneyBox graphic tells the story.
MoneyBox graphic tells the story.
Great piece in the NYT today showing that more young women are enrolled in college than are in the workforce. Many reasons for this including the economic, cultural, and other factors. I’ve definitely seen a trend toward women-majority classes. When you consider that college enrollment growth over the last year has been mainly attributed to…
Just released results from a survey commissioned by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) shows the on-going, and perhaps growing, expectation gap between businesses and colleges. According to the survey, employers think colleges and universities can do a better job preparing students for the workplace. Based on the survey, only 7% of…
Jared Bernstein at On the Economy explains health care is the current and future economic engine. Check out this graph via On the Economy: Given the health care needs of Latinos in coming decades, all you aspiring Latino health care workers – you have your marching orders…
Just came across this interesting tidbit via Social Media Today regarding Social Media and Diversity. According to one study, “a higher percentage minorities are visiting social networking sites on a weekly basis than their non-ethnic counterparts” Graphic via Social Media Today.
The Economist digs into why women still haven’t reached the professional success of men – in all aspects of the organizational workplace: And despite sheaves of equal-pay legislation, women get paid less than men for comparable work. That is partly because they often work in different fields, and many of them are part-timers with lower…
Mariko Chang at The Hill argues that college students will be challenged to pay off student debt, especially for Latinos and African Americans graduates. The odds of paying off college debt are much tougher for minority graduates, particularly Black men, who face far higher unemployment than their White counterparts. More than 25 percent of Black…
One important reason the public sector has a hard time recruiting the best and brightest – via Economic Policy Institute: When looking at total compensation including employer-provided benefits, this gap narrowed but the private sector workers still earned $2,001 more per year than public sector workers ($71,109 in total compensation, versus $69,108). This gap was…
When will your state return to pre-recession job levels?
Judith Scott-Clayton argues that college is not as expensive as it’s thought to be. I’m in the process of buying a car – wish the same would hold true for car sticker prices: What has been buried in much of the resulting coverage is that while colleges’ published tuition and fees have indeed increased, these…
