On Tuesday, the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce issued a lengthy report, Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018,” with state-by-state analyses. See http://cew.georgetown.edu/JOBS2018/.
Key quote: “America is slowly coming out of the Recession of 2007—only to find itself on a collision course with the future: not enough Americans are completing college . . . By 2018, we will need 22 million new workers with college degrees—but will fall short of that number by at least 3 million postsecondary degrees . . . At a time when every job is precious, this shortfall will mean lost economic opportunity for millions of American workers.”
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