Opportunity News: The Costs and Benefits of College; a Rough Road for Millenials
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Higher Education
Stories about higher education dominated the news this week. Some highlights:
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) proposes overhauling higher ed, including income-based terms for repaying student loans and new standards for accrediting free online courses.
According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, The Rising Cost of Not Going to College, found that millennial college graduates ages 25 to 32 who work full time earn $17,500 more a year than young Americans with only a high school diploma.
New York Times Editorial Board argues that as helpful and important as college degrees are in helping Americans attain economic stability and mobility, they are not enough to create more good-paying jobs and increase incomes.
Youth Unemployment
Sobering piece in The Atlantic about just how tough young Americans have it: Indisputable evidence that Millennials have it worse than any generation in 50 years.
Opportunity Nation
Opportunity Nation is a bipartisan, national campaign comprised of more than 350 cross-sector organizations working together to expand economic mobility and close the opportunity gap in America. Opportunity Nation envisions the United States as a nation where everyone – regardless of where they were born – has equal access to opportunity, economic mobility, and success at all stages of life.
