Earlier this week I wrote about ALICE households, and how the profile of an ALICE household is changing. People have a lot of misconceptions about…
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Fidelity recently updated its College Savings Indicator report, which it has published since 2007. According to Fidelity, about three-fourths of American parents have saved something…
Yesterday, Ohio governor Mike DeWine appointed a conservator and a governance authority to manage the dissolution of Eastern Gateway Community College. In a press release…
A recent update by the United Way of Michigan shows an increase in the number of households classified as asset-limited, income-constrained, employed (ALICE) between 2021…
A new St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank analysis of second-quarter earnings and expenditure data show that factors like age, education, demographic and gender modify the…
Yesterday, I wrote about the Michigan Community College Guarantee. The State of Michigan plans to invest as much as $86M into the program, which could…
Last week, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer signed off on a new higher education budget that will fund free college for high school graduates from 2023…
An experimental grant will pay some community college students in Maryland $50 per month to meet with an academic advisor while they’re enrolled in programs…
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the weekly median earnings of US salaried and hourly workers in the second quarter. The composite median…
Flatland, a digital publication of Kansas City PBS, published a nice analysis of the troubles and triumphs of community and technical colleges in Kansas and…