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May the Best Woman Win?: Education and Bias against Women in American Politics
A record number of women are competing for the presidential nomination in 2020, but gender bias stands to affect their chances of election.

Our Separate & Unequal Public Colleges: How Public Colleges Reinforce White Racial Privilege and Marginalize Black and Latino Students
Misguided admissions practices and growing inequality in funding are splitting the public higher education system, which serves more than three-quarters of all college students, into two separate and unequal tracks.

Three Educational Pathways to Good Jobs: High School, Middle Skills, and Bachelor’s Degree
The economy that once provided good jobs for young workers with a high school education or less now favors workers with at least some education and training beyond high school.
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Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Proposals Could Create Millions of Jobs
New analysis from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (Georgetown Center) finds that President-elect Trump’s 10-year $1 trillion infrastructure proposal could create 11 million jobs, restoring the job growth trajectory derailed by the Great Recession, but also risks overheating the economy.
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Average Student Has Better Chance (77%) of Graduating at Selective Universities than at Open Access Schools (51%)
The theory that an average student, including minority students, will be overmatched at a selective university and will do poorly is empirically unsound, according to a new analysis from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (Georgetown Center). In fact, all students with above average test scores will succeed at a higher rate at selective colleges than open-admission…
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CEW State Initiative Launches New Web Portal
As part of its multi-state effort to help develop information systems that integrate education and workforce data to improve policies and programs, the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce has officially launched a web portal to house its research for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Scalia’s Incorrect Affirmative Action Claims
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s suggestion during a hearing of oral arguments for the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin that African-American students do not benefit from attending more academically rigorous colleges is at odds with empirical research on the subject, according to researchers at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
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Sharp Declines in Underemployment Rate for College Graduates
In an article about underemployment rates in the nation, authors Anthony P. Carnevale and Nicole Smith discuss the sharp decline of underemployment for college graduates compared to less-educated workers.
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Learning While Earning: The New Normal
Learning While Earning: The New Normal finds that over the last 25 years, more than 70 percent of college students have been working while enrolled.
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Hispanics: College Majors and Earnings
Which majors are popular for Hispanics around the country and what are their respective annual earnings? Majors are not perfectly aligned with occupations, but they do determine lifetime earnings. Today a college education is the gateway to the middle class. Hispanics who have not had access to economic resources over generations receive the most benefit from earning a Bachelor’s degree…
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Good Jobs Are Back
Good Jobs Are Back: College Graduates Are First in Line analyzes the production of jobs since 2010 and defines the components of a good job. These jobs pay $53,000 or more and tend to be full-time with lucrative benefits such as retirement and healthcare. The study finds that of the 6.6 million jobs created since 2010, 2.9 million were good…
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The Economic Value of College Majors
The Economic Value of College Majors uses Census Data to analyze wages for 137 college majors to detail the most popular college majors, the majors that are most likely to lead to an advanced degree, and the economic benefit of earning an advanced degree by undergraduate major.
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The Economy Goes to College
The report analyzes long-terms changes in how goods and services are produced. The report finds that college-educated workers now produce more than half of the nation’s annual economic value.
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State Online College Job Market: Ranking the States
The report ranks the states by how many job openings there are per college-educated workers overall and within industries and career fields.
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The Online College Labor Market Release
More than 80 percent of job openings for workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher are posted online. This report analyzes the demand for college talent in the job market by examining online job advertisements for college degree-holders by education, occupations, and industries.
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Nursing: Supply and Demand through 2020 Press Release
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 to fill those openings. We project the nursing workforce will be facing a shortfall of roughly 200,000 nursing professionals by 2020.
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From Hard Times to Better Times
The job market for recent college graduates has continued to improve but individual graduates’ chances of finding a job depends on their major. The report is the third in a series of reports published by the Center that analyze unemployment rates for recent college graduates by major. The newest edition, Hard Times to Better Times, also analyzes changes in unemployment…
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College Is Just the Beginning
While colleges and universities spend $407 billion on post-secondary education and training, employers spend even more. College Is Just the Beginning: The Employer Role in the $1.1 Trillion Postsecondary Education and Training System, we analyze how much employers spend on training, what they spend their training dollars on, and how spending on formal employer-provided training varies by age, educational attainment,…
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New Year, New Website!
The CEW, a nonprofit research and policy Institute that studies the link between individuals’ goals, education and career pathways, today announced the launch of its new and improved site.
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U.S. Census Bureau to Stop Measuring the Value of College Majors
The U.S. Census Bureau proposes to eliminate the collection of data on the value of college majors from its annual American Community Survey (ACS).
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Failure to Launch Release
Georgetown Study Finds The Age At Which Young Adults Get Traction in Their Careers Has Increased From Age 26 To 30, And To Age 33 For African Americans.
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The Summer Surge in College Unemployment Release
Beware the Summer Surge in College Unemployment.
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Separate and Unequal Release
Affirmative Action Or Not, Higher Education Perpetuates Racial Inequality.
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Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements through 2020 Release
New Study Finds There Will Be 55 million Job Openings by 2020.
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Hard Times 2013 Release
It Still Pays to Earn a College Degree But Not All College Degrees are Created Equal.
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College Jobs are Hit Disproportionately by the Sequester
In response to the 2013 Federal Budget Sequestration, our findings suggest that of the estimated 746,222 jobs lost by 2014 due to sequestration of federal spending; over 70 percent of those jobs lost will be for workers with postsecondary education and training.
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Career and Technical Education: Five Ways that Pay Along the Way to the B.A. Release
New Study Finds 29 Million Middle-Class Jobs for Workers Without Bachelor’s Degrees.
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The College Advantage Release
College Graduates Lead National Job Growth Recovery, New Georgetown Study Finds.
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A Decade Behind Release
The South is a Decade Behind the Rest of the Country in the Proportion of the High-Wage, High-Skill, High-Demand Jobs that require Postsecondary Education.
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Healthcare Release
With or Without Obamacare, the United States Will Need 5.6 Million More Healthcare Workers by 2020, Georgetown University Study Says.
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Certificates: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees Release
New Study Finds There Will be 55 Million Job Openings by 2020.
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Hard Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings: Not All College Degrees Are Created Equal Release
New Report Finds That Rise of Employment Varies by College Major.
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Career Clusters Release
New Report Finds the Best Education Pathways Out of Jobless Recovery.
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STEM Release
New Report Finds that 63 Percent of Associate’s Degrees in STEM Earn More Than Bachelor’s Degrees in Non-STEM Occupations.
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The Midwest Challenge Release
New Report Finds 610,000 Manufacturing Jobs Have Been Lost in the Midwest but New Jobs in Healthcare and Education Offer Opportunities.
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The College Payoff Release
New Study Finds that Earning Power is Increasingly Tied to Education; The Data is Clear: A College Degree is Critical to Economic Opportunity.
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The Undereducated American Release
June 27, 2011 New Report Finds U.S. Has Been Underproducing College-Educated Workers for Thirty Years.
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