A comprehensive workforce and education agenda should boost investments in career and technical education, help workers get training, and build partnerships between educational providers and employers
Degree, certificate enrollment drops threaten recovery
In an era of partisan legislative gridlock, there is no easy way out of this. But the health of our economy depends on producing qualified workers for essential jobs, so we have to muster the collective will to find solutions.
New Brookings report validates UPP approach
As the traditional college degree has become increasingly expensive and, to some, irrelevant, a ‘haphazard proliferation of alternatives” has arisen. The problem with some of these alternatives is that there is no quality control system to oversee them.
A bad combination: Degree, debt, no marketable skills
An increasing number of people with four-year college degrees are going back to school to acquire marketable skills, after being saddled with enormous student loan debt.