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October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
Republicans and Democrats alike agree about the importance of workforce training. They’re right: Despite a recent labor-market cooling, there are still 7.7 million unfilled jobs in the United States. Unfortunately, America’s workforce-education…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…can too readily unravel the informal ties among people that develop organically through private cooperation and community endeavors. None of this presumes malice or malfeasance; it’s just that government programs…
February 9, 2024
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…than when they started. Research conducted by Preston Cooper, an economist and friend, shows that a large number of programs of study are not “paying off” for graduates. Surveying nearly 30,000 bachelor…
December 8, 2023
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
…taxpayer loan) or dropping out of college. As economist Preston Cooper has noted, “Given that 38 percent of students do not finish college and 54 percent of those that finish received Pell Grants,”…