Media Mentions

In The Washington Post, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel quotes CEW’s Zack Mabel in an article that highlights high-paying careers for workers without bachelor’s degrees.

In The Wall Street Journal, Callum Borchers quotes CEW’s Madeleine Adelson and cites Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs in an article that explores why some companies are so eager to cut their middle managers. 

In an article for The 74 article examining the economic impact of expanding Pell Grants to short-term training programs and credentials, Patrick O’Donnell quotes CEW’s Jeff Strohl.

Forbes contributor John Werner cites Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs in an article that considers some of the unique challenges young workers may face over the arc of their careers.

For The New York Times, Lydia DePillis quotes CEW Director Jeff Strohl in an article that explores the contemporary rise in demand for certain skilled trades occupations alongside the rapid expansion of AI data centers.

In The Hechinger Report, Jon Marcus cites Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs in an article that explores how college graduates are increasingly worried about securing employment despite record  shortages predicted in fields requiring postsecondary education. 

For The Baltimore Banner, Bria Overs quotes CEW’s Zack Mabel in an article that explores what researchers believe about AI and the current job market.

Forbes contributor Laurel Donnellan cites Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs in an article that explores the importance of adaptability in an evolving labor market.

“In the 1980s, you just got a BA, the employer would train you and everything would be nice. Now much more of that workforce preparation falls on the student,” CEW Director Jeff Strohl shares in The 74.

In The Boston Globe Hillary Burns quotes CEW Director Jeff Strohl in an article that explores the effects of forthcoming student loan caps. 

Paul Toomey cites Bridging the Middle-Skills Gap in a Fast Company article emphasizing the role employer-educator partnerships play in credential-to-jobs-alignment.

For Education Week, Mark Walsh quotes CEW’s Artem Gulish in an article that explores increased interest in work-based learning in K–12 education.

In a Marketplace article, Calleigh Wells quotes CEW’s Nicole Smith on the recent increase in the trend of US workers holding more than one job.

Josh Farris cites Navigating the College-to-Career Pathway in an Inside Higher Ed article that explores how impending student loan caps may alter graduate school incentives for young adults.

CEW’s Zack Mabel shares findings from our latest report, The Golden Ticket, in The EDU Ledger.

In Business Insider, Amanda Hoover quotes CEW’s Zack Mabel in an article that explores the cognitive risks students can face from overreliance on AI tools. 

“A degree doesn’t guarantee you a job; it offers you prospects,” CEW Director Jeff Strohl shares with Karin Fischer from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

In a GBH article about underemployment, Kirk Carapezza quotes CEW Director Jeff Strohl: “We dump all these graduates into the labor market—often three million at the same time—and then tell them to go swim. It takes a while to find a good match.”

Forbes contributor Allison Griffin cites The Great Misalignment, and After Everything: Projections of Jobs, Education, and Training Requirements through 2031 in an article exploring why a less siloed approach to postsecondary education and training, the workforce, and supports for workers would benefit the nation.

Jamal Watson highlights key findings from CEW’s newest report, Rethinking Underemployment: Are College Graduates Using Their Degrees?, in The EDU Ledger.

“Projected higher salaries don’t necessarily mean that there will be a great job market for new college graduates in the next year or two,” CEW’s Artem Gulish says in an Inside Higher Ed article about recent employer projections.

For The Hechinger Report, Neal Morton quotes CEW Director Jeff Strohl in an article exploring one state’s attempt to infuse their math curriculum with data science.

CEW Director Jeff Strohl joins Steve Scott on KCBS Radio to discuss the value of bachelor’s degrees in an evolving job market.

For The Washington Post, Taylor Telford quotes CEW Director Jeff Strohl about the recent renewed interest in occupational associate’s degrees. 

In The Hechinger Report, Jon Marcus cites Graduate Degrees: Risky and Unequal Paths to the Top in an article that explores women’s continued high enrollment in graduate programs.  

“As much as the ‘college isn’t worth it’ cry is out there, there’s also a recognition that sending our children to college is a good idea,” CEW Director Jeff Strohl shares in The Washington Post.

“Oftentimes, people say that not everybody should go to college, and that these two-year programs, these trade schools, are really good. Ask them where they’re sending their kids,” CEW Director Jeff Strohl shares in The Atlantic.

For The Texas Tribune, Rob Reid cites After Everything: Projections of Jobs, Education, and Training Requirements through 2031 in an article that explores how structural disadvantages leave low-income students behind in the state.

In Chalkbeat, Amy Zimmer cites The Future of Good Jobs: Projections Through 2031 in an article about the expansion of dual enrollment programs in New York state.

For The Hechinger Report, Lawrence Lanahan quotes CEW’s Nicole Smith in an article highlighting the expansion of skills-based hiring in Colorado.

Jessica Blake cites Graduate Degrees: Risky and Unequal Paths to the Top in an Inside Higher Ed article exploring impending graduate student loan caps.

For The Washington Post, Susan Svrluga quotes CEW Director Jeff Strohl in an article about the increasing availability of workforce training programs.

“From an early age, socialization, educational tracking and stereotypes about ‘male’ jobs and ‘female’ jobs influence the fields individuals enter,” CEW’s Nicole Smith says in a Bankrate article on the gender wage gap.

In a Marketplace article that explores the real-world implications of declining confidence in 4-year degrees,  Jillian Berman cites “Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs.”

Forbes contributor Marvin Krislov cites “Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs” in an article that explores some of the current challenges besetting the nation’s workforce.

In Inside Higher, Sara Weissman highlights CEW’s newest report, “Falling Behind: How Skills Shortages Threaten Future Jobs,” which examines skills gaps in key occupations through at least 2032.