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Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me

6/3/2015

 
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If one of the world’s most famous college dropouts isn’t skeptical about the value of college, why should anyone be? According to New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, the economy is not a zero-sum game. That is, a well-educated workforce is not one in which college graduates are forced to fight over a fixed number of good jobs; instead, sustained investments in higher education lead to richer, healthier and better functioning societies over time.
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Why You Should Really Go To College, In 2 Charts

2/20/2015

 
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Just how much is college worth? About twice as much as it was in the 1960s, according to the latest Economic Report of the President, a report released annually by The White House. Among the topics examined was the college wage "premium," which serves as an indicator of the economic value of a college degree. This figure is calculated by finding the difference in income between college graduates and those with only high school degrees. The following chart shows the change in the college wage premia for men and women from 1963 to 2013. 


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A Troubling College Divide Between Rich and Poor

2/13/2015

 
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Over the last 45 years, the college-completion gap between the richest and poorest Americans rose from a 34-percentage point difference to a gap of 46 percentage points. Whereas 77% of the most wealthiest students graduate from college today, a majority of low-income students never attain that coveted degree. Many factors could be to blame for this troubling discrepancy, but one thing is certain--this trend is blocking the door to the middle class for millions of poor Americans. 
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College Graduates Don't Think Their Degree Pays Off. They're Wrong.

2/10/2015

 
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Think college isn't worth it? You're not alone, according to a new report from Nielsen. Based on a survey of 2,000 people--900 of whom were college graduates of various ages--the authors found that a majority of college graduates believe college offers a lower return on investment compared to a decade ago. However, what is popular is not always right; as Bloomberg's Natalie Kitroeff asserted: “In reality, not going to college is far more expensive than ending your education at high school. The difference comes to hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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Three Reasons College Matters for Social Mobility

2/6/2015

 
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Higher education has long been tauted as the key to the middle class, and there is plenty of data to prove it. Researchers at the Brookings Institution have distilled the issue down to three distinct reasons why attending (and graduating from) college has such a strong impact on social mobility.


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The College Trap that Keeps People Poor

12/15/2014

 
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College is the key to upward mobility, according to Jim Trankersley from the Washington Post. Of those born in the bottom of the income ladder, 9 of every 10 who graduated from college moved up economically later in life. In contrast, only half of children without a college degree make the same leap.
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