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January 26, 2022

The Gig Economy is Trying to Solve Health Care’s Burnout Crisis

This Axios article by Tina Reed pulls data from the CEW Report “Nursing” to explain the need for more nursing staff nationwide, and how the gig economy may have an important role to play in achieving that.

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January 25, 2022

Post College Earnings Depend on the College Attended

This Inside Higher Ed article by Sara Weissman spotlights the CEW Report “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI” to demonstrate how lower income students often experience a lower return on investment for their college education, with suggestions on how to prevent this.

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January 25, 2022

Post College Earnings Depend on the College Attended

This Inside Higher Ed article by Sara Weissman uses the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI,” to bring attention to the fact that the median return on investment for low-income students is lower than the average return on investment for all college students.

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January 25, 2022

Which Types of Institutions Offer Low-income Students the Greatest ROI?

This Higher Ed Dive article by Natalie Schwartz references the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI,” to highlight how public schools offer lower income students the highest median return on their investment.

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January 20, 2022

Survey of 563,000 Recent College Grads Finds Gender Pay Gap Already Impacting Class of 2020

This CNBC article from Abigail Johnson Hess takes insight from CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on how “occupational segregation” is one of the many factors that leads to the persistence of the gender pay gap.

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January 19, 2022

A Decades-Long “National Crisis,” and a New Position

This Inside Higher Ed article by Sara Weissman references CEW Report “The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice” to discuss racial gaps in both wealth and education.

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January 10, 2022

All in? Or just some?

This Inside Higher Ed article by Carol Geary Schnieder cites CEW report “The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian Attitudes” to explain the pressing need to extend service based learning to all types of institutions of higher education.

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January 7, 2022

Fewer High School Graduates Go Straight to College

This Inside Higher Ed article by Maria Carrasco solicits insight from CEW Director Anthony Carnevale as to what deters low-income students from going to college.

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January 6, 2022

Rethinking the Performance Gap

This Inside Higher Ed article by Steven Mintz examines central questions asked in the recent CEW report, “The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice in Postsecondary Education.”

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January 4, 2022

Why It Might Not Be As Easy As You Think to Switch Jobs or Change Careers Right Now

This MarketWatch article by Anna Helhoski quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on how the “Great Resignation” might not exactly lead to a seamless “great retraining” for workers.

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December 26, 2021

Growing “Maze” of Education Credentials is Confusing Consumers, Employers

This Washington Post article by Jon Marcus references the CEW report “Three Educational Pathways to Good Jobs” to highlight the increased demand for post-secondary education for most jobs.

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December 20, 2021

Why College Majors Are Another Form of Implicit Bias in Higher Education

This article in the Hechinger Report by Michael Collins references a CEW report “African American Majors” to illuminate how Black students are often underrepresented in majors that lead to higher wages.

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December 17, 2021

Free Community College is Dead — and Still Possible

This Yahoo Finance article by Colin Beresford highlights the CEW report “The Dollars and Sense of Free College” to emphasize how tuition-free community college ultimately would have paid for itself.

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December 17, 2021

Making a College Degree Count: Beyond Good Grades

This Forbes article by Nancy Lee Sanchez quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of diversifying skill-based workforce training programs.

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December 9, 2021

Gap Year Youth are Taking Advantage of a Temporarily Booming Job Market

This Diverse Issues in Higher Ed article by Liann Herder quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the unique circumstances facing students who choose to take a gap year.

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December 6, 2021

A National Army of Career Counselors

This Inside Higher Ed article by Matt Reed analyzes comments from CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of career counselors in higher education.

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December 6, 2021

Trimming Their Social Agenda, Democrats Cut the Proposal of Free Community College

This NPR article by Elissa Nadworny references a CEW analysis to highlight the economic gains that are to be lost from the removal of tuition free community college from the upcoming reconciliation legislation, in the form of a yearly $170 billion boost to GDP.

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December 6, 2021

The Big Shift in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

This CNN Politics article by Ronald Brownstein analyzes the CEW report “Infrastructure,” in addition to commentary from Chief CEW Economist Nicole Smith, to highlight the differences between the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation and the Build Back Better Reconciliation Bill, mainly in that the former primarily creates jobs in male dominated fields, whereas the latter more so supports women and minority dominated…

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December 5, 2021

Professional Success Is Liberal Arts Colleges’ Best Kept Secret

This Times Higher Education article by Jeffrey Nesteruk and Barbara Altmann highlights key findings from the CEW report “ROI of Liberal Arts Colleges” namely that liberal arts colleges often deliver a high ROI for students.

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December 1, 2021

The Help Wanted Signs Are Up for Transit Workers

This New York Times article by James Barron quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on how license or test-based certification requirements for transit agencies limit the pool of qualified applicants.

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December 1, 2021

Climb or Die

This Inside Higher Ed article by Matt Reed examines advice from CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on what non-elite four-year colleges should do to prepare for the future.

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November 30, 2021

Degrees Don’t Guarantee Outcomes, Clear Pathways Do

This University Business article by Amrit Ahluwalia emphasizes key findings from the CEW report “The College Payoff,” as well as commentary from CEW Senior Economist and Research Professor Ban Cheah, to highlight the importance of higher education institutions making job outcomes clear for students.

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November 30, 2021

Why Retired Subway Workers are Getting $35,000 to Come Back

This New York Times article by Winnie Hu quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on barriers to entry for transit jobs. 

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November 29, 2021

So You Want a New Job? Here’s How to Retrain

This ABC News article by Anna Helhoski quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of retraining workers seeking new careers, particularly due to increased skill requirements driven by advancements in technology.

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November 12, 2021

Would You Manage 70 Children and a 15-Ton Vehicle for $18 an Hour?

This article by Maggie Koerth in FiveThirtyEight quotes Chief CEW Economist Nicole Smith on the shifting middle class and its effects on gender.

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November 12, 2021

Free College Campaigners Pledge to Fight on After Congress Defeat

This article by Paul Basken in Times Higher Education quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the economic loss to be incurred from tuition free community college be axed from the upcoming spending bill. 

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November 8, 2021

Politics Killed National Free Community College — For Now, But Advocates Vow to “Keep Going” as Momentum Continues in States

This MarketWatch article by Jillian Berman references CEW report “The Dollar and Sense of Free College,” in addition to quoting CEW Director Anthony Carnevale, in order to illustrate the importance of carrying on the fight for tuition-free community college.

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November 8, 2021

Free College is Dead in Congress, But It’s Alive and Well in the States

This article from Chronicle of Higher Education by Eric Kelderman explains CEW report “The Dollars and Sense of Free College” to reveal the economic cost to be incurred should free college not be implemented nationwide.

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November 8, 2021

College Costs Have Increased By 169% Since 1980 — But Pay for Young Workers is up by Just 10%: Georgetown Report Says

This CNBC article by Abigail Johnson Hess articulates a key finding of the CEW report, “If Not Now, When?” in that the gap between how much young workers make and how much they must pay to go to college has only grown larger over the past several years.

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November 8, 2021

A Surprise for America’s Many Career Switchers: They Need to go Back to School

This Hechinger Report article by Jon Marcus cites CEW report “Upskilling and Downsizing in American Manufacturing” to emphasize the growing demand for postsecondary education in manufacturing jobs.

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November 8, 2021

8 Ways to Better Connect Preschool to Promising Careers for All Students

This University Business article by Matt Zalaznick references CEW report “If Not Now, When?” in addition to quoting CEW Director Anthony Carnevale in order to highlight the pressing need to bridge educational gaps as early as possible, starting in preschool.

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November 1, 2021

US Misses Billions in Gains as Free Community College Gets Ax

This article by Jarrell Dillard in Bloomberg references CEW analysis and quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale to emphasize how much the US economy will miss out on as a result of tuition free community college being removed from the upcoming spending bill.

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October 29, 2021

On College, Opportunity, and Merit

This article by M.J. Anderson in the Boston Globe quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale and analyzes CEW Report “The Merit Myth” to illustrate how institutions of higher education often foster a self-perpetuating elite, despite the fact that they are intended to be tools to upward economic mobility.

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October 29, 2021

The Week in COVID & Education Policy: When Can Schools Cancel Mask Mandates, Pediatricians Declare Mental Health Emergency & More

This article from The 74 references data from CEW report “If Not Now, When?” to map out all the pressing issues to the world of education.

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October 18, 2021

Restoring America’s Democracy Through Education

This article from Ed Surge by Stephen J Handle and Eileen L Strample uses the CEW report “The College Payoff” to compare median lifetime earnings for bachelor’s degree holders vs non bachelor’s degree holders, highlighting college education as a crucial tool in an individual’s trajectory to the middle class.

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October 18, 2021

More Education Doesn’t Always Get You More Money, Report Finds

This article from CNBC by Jessica Dickler quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale and references CEW report “The College Payoff” to emphasize that while more education does not always mean more money, the safest strategy is to stay in school.

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October 18, 2021

More Education, More Earnings, But…

This article from Community College Daily by Matthew Dembicki unpacks CEW report “The College Payoff” to reveal that while more education generally means more earnings, other important factors such as field of study and occupation come into play.

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October 18, 2021

When Graduating Isn’t Enough: New KIPP Scholarship Will Help First-Gen College Grads at Risk of Being “Underemployed”

This article from The 74 by Richard Whitemire cites the CEW report “The Unequal Race to Good Jobs” to highlight how Black and Latino students are not as likely to obtain good jobs as equally educated White workers.

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October 18, 2021

Declining Enrollments in Community Colleges: America’s Economic Divide

Check out this article from International Higher Education written by the CEW Director Anthony Carnevale, examining educational disparities that have only been heightened by the coronavirus pandemic.

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October 18, 2021

Do College Degrees Offer Best Financial Outcomes for All Students?

This article from University Business by Chris Burt references the CEW report “The College Payoff” to emphasize that beyond level of education, race, gender, and field of studies can have significant power in determining future wealth.

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October 18, 2021

A College Degree is Now “a Matter of Life and Death,” Says This Noble Prize Winner

This article from MarketWatch by Howard Gold notes how drug overdoses and death rates are lower for bachelor’s degree holders as opposed to those without a college degree.

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October 18, 2021

Median Lifetime Earnings Rise With Each Level of Education, Report Finds

This Higher Ed Dive article by Natalie Schwartz references the CEW Report “The College Payoff” to highlight how workers with bachelor’s degrees have significantly higher median lifetime earnings than workers with just a high school diploma.

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October 18, 2021

You Don’t Need a Bachelor’s Degree to Land a High Paying Job

This NPR article by Elissa Nadworny quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale about how going to college isn’t always the best advice for every high school student.

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October 18, 2021

California’s New Reading Goal is Achievable, but it Needs to be More Meaningful

This article from Ed Source by David Wakelyn uses the CEW Report “Recovery” to emphasize just how important a college education is to obtaining a job in California’s economy.

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October 18, 2021

More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings

This article from Inside Higher Ed by Sara Weissman examines the key finding from the CEW Report “The College Payoff,” being that bachelor’s degree holders tend to earn more than workers without one.

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October 4, 2021

A Guide to Different Types of College Degrees

This Yahoo News article by Josh Moody references the Georgetown CEW report “The College Payoff” to compare median lifetime earnings across education levels.

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October 4, 2021

AAC&U, SHEEO Help Create Coalition to Address Civic Engagement

This article by Chris Burt from University Business announces CEW Director Anthony Carnevale as a signatory of the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition, a group aimed at promoting dialogue among postsecondary students to help solve issues critical to the nation’s success.

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October 4, 2021

US Education: Joe Biden Seeks to Provide Universal Pre-k, Community College for All Americans

This article from International Business Times by Ben Scheffer quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on President Biden’s plans to implement tuition free community college and universal Pre-K.

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October 4, 2021

Why Working While in College Can Be a Bad Investment for Students

This article by Ruth Bauer White from the Hechinger Report cites the Georgetown CEW report “Balancing Work and Learning” to emphasize the hardships some students face in working a job while trying to earn their degree.

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September 27, 2021

4 Colleges Team up to Launch Equity “Moon Shot” in Cincinnati and no. Kentucky

This University Business article by Matt Zalaznick cites CEW report “Dividend Recovery” to emphasize just how important a college degree has become in obtaining a job in the modern era.

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