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Why is it so hard for workers to find new jobs?

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That could have lasting effects both for these individuals’ financial security and for the broader economy, by stymieing innovation and growth and deepening economic polarization. The United States has, historically, done a poor job of helping people who have been displaced by offshoring, automation, recessions and other economic dislocation.

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How a decline in community college students is a big problem for the economy

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Even if enrollment eventually rebounds, the interruption caused by the pandemic will be felt for years — coinciding with a hoped-for economic recovery — since that’s how long it usually takes students to complete credentials once they start them. It also creates a huge need for people to build and run the technology.

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Microchip Companies Create Child Care Programs to Win Federal Funds

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This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If They’re not in the business of sustaining this beyond their grant from the federal government,” she said. Federal contractors are supposed to ensure that women perform 6.9

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

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Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Just a few miles away from where Ballani teaches, Michael Daube is raising money for the new girls’ school and economic center in Jaisalmer.

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

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This is one of the few things outside school that young people have to do in this neighborhood, which the government ranks among the country’s poorest. One-third more girls than boys in Britain go to college, government statistics show. Campuses here, overall, are 56 percent female. In the U.S., Photo: Dominic Barnfather. “We

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In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one

The Hechinger Report

That includes in almost all of the 36 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , or OECD, and in 39 of 47 countries of the UN Economic Commission for Europe , which extends to central and western Asia. No one’s saying we’re going to make it easier for men to go to university.”.

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California’s COVID-19 recovery plan seeks to improve higher education equity

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If they’re economically eligible to receive food, housing or transportation assistance, Ajose said those resources should be easily accessible to them. Some changes need government or university systems’ action, Wiafe said, but “fostering inclusive environments, that is on everybody.”.

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