Increased Earning Power
Undersupply of College Grads
AAHHE Call for Proposals
Effect of Poverty on College Choice
Needy students ’priced out’
Hispanics and Education

A College Degree is Critical to Economic Opportunity
By Lumina Foundation
A new study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce confirms that the value of college degrees is increasing. Experts from Georgetown and Lumina Foundation say that postsecondary education has become the new gateway to the middle class and one of the most important economic issues of our time.
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Undersupply of College Grads
By Center on Education and the Workforce
The nation must add 20 million postsecondary-educated workers to the economy by 2025 to increase productivity and reverse income inequality, according to a new report, the Undereducated American. Authors and labor economists Anthony Carnevale and Stephen Rose from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce warn that the nation runs the risk of becoming the global leader in income inequality unless more Americans earn degrees and credentials. 
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AAHHE Call for Proposals
AAHHE’s 7th Annual National Conference “Celebrating Our Similarities, Embracing Our Differences” “Celebrando Nuestras Semejanzas, Valorando Nuestras Diferencias”. Call for proposals is now available.
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Effect of Poverty on College Choice
By IHEP
Low-income students ages 18 to 26 attend for-profit colleges at four times the rate of other students, according to a Portraits: Initial College Attendance of Low-Income Young Adults by the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
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Needy Students ‘Priced Out’
By The Education Trust
Federal and local financial aid policies hinder many low-income students from receiving the money they need to attend and graduate from college, concludes a report from the Education Trust. Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial-Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students finds that only five of the nation’s four-year colleges and universities offer low-income students “a reasonable chance at a bachelor’s degree at a relatively affordable cost.”
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Hispanics and Education
More young Hispanics are finishing high school, and the number attending two-year colleges has nearly doubled over the past decade, according to new U.S. Census data .  The percentage of Hispanics attending a two-year college has increased 85 percent, from 540,000 in 2000 to 1 million in 2008.
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